Personal Life
Don Gallinger grew up and played sports in Port Colborne, Ontario. He was the youngest of six children. He was childhood friends with Toronto Maple Leafs' captain Teeder Kennedy.
After being suspended by the NHL, Gallinger moved to Kitchener, Ontario where he met and married, Kathleen Wagner. The couple had three boys and another child, Randy Kathleen, who died at age 11 at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto. Gallinger and his wife ran several downtown hotels. Gallinger participated in baseball in the early 1950s, captaining the Kitchener-Waterloo Panthers to two championships. He also coached the Junior B teams in Hamilton and Port Colborne in the early 1960s. After Gallinger and his wife separated in the mid-1960s, he moved to Burlington where he lived for 30 years until his death. Kathleen Gallinger died in a car accident at age 41.
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