Dwayne Haskins’ parents have made it clear they will not be attending his funeral service Friday, as they plan to hold multiple memorials to honor the late Steelers quarterback closer to his native New Jersey.
“We have never met or spoken to the wife [Kalabrya Haskins], and we didn’t want our son’s funeral service to be the place we met her for the first time,” Dwayne Sr. and Tamara Haskins said Friday in a joint statement.
Haskins married Kalabrya, who played basketball at Michigan State, last March.
Haskins’ parents said two separate memorials are planned to pay tribute to their son. According to WUSA9, a funeral service will be held Saturday from 12 to 3 p.m. at Christ Church in Rockaway Township, N.J. — with a second memorial service planned for Sunday at 7 p.m., at Haskins’ high school.
Haskins died after he was struck by a dump truck while walking on I-595 outside Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. This week, audio was shared from a 911 call made by Haskins’ wife on the morning of his death, in which she told the dispatcher the Steelers quarterback was “stuck” on the side of a Florida highway and “had to go walk and get gas.”
Haskins was training with teammates in Florida at the time he was killed.
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He would have turned 25 on May 3.
