Harmon Killebrew was the cleanup hitter for the Twins for 14 memorable seasons. At a memorial service on Thursday night for the Hall of Famer, who died last week at the age of 74 after a bout with esophageal cancer, Killebrew's shy wife, Nita, delivered a powerful, tear-jerking thank you to about 4,000 fans. Killebrew's wife spoke after heavy hitters like Rod Carew, Paul Molitor and Justin Morneau. "Thank you for loving my husband," Nita said. "Thank you for healing his heart and his soul. Thank you for sharing him with me and giving so much to him so he had so much to give back to all of us. "His body is at rest at his home in Payette. His soul is at peace in that big ballpark in the sky. But his heart will always be in Minnesota here with you." He hit 573 home runs in his career, but was remembered as much for his gentlemanly nature off of the baseball diamond on Thursday night. "Harmon had I don't know how many home runs," Hank Aaron said. "In his case, really, in all fairness to him, he was No. 1 really. He hit 1,000 home runs because he did so many great things off the field. That's what counts, it's not how you play the game, it's how you play it afterward."