Only Canadian woman to have name engraved on Stanley Cup, Sonia Scurfield, dies
Posted June 15, 2018 7:20 am.
Last Updated June 15, 2018 8:21 am.
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CALGARY – The only Canadian woman to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup has died.
Sonia Scurfield, who co-owned the Calgary Flames from 1985 to 1994, died this week at Foothills Hospital in Calgary.
Her death was announced late Thursday by Sunshine Village ski resort, which is owned by her family.
She was 89.
Scurfield’s name was added to hockey’s holy grail when the Flames won the Stanley Cup in 1989.
She married Ralph Scurfield in Edmonton in 1954 and took over his ownership of the team when he died in an avalanche while heli-skiing in 1985.
Scurfield raised seven children in Calgary.
“It is with a heavy heart that we relay the passing of Sonia Scurfield, the matriarch of the Scurfield family,” the ski resort wrote on Facebook. “She will be sorely missed.”
(CFFR, The Canadian Press)
