Days of Our Lives' star Deidre Hall said that 'lovely tribute shows' have been planned to honor Drake Hogestyn, who died in late September at 70.

Deidre Hall is revealing how the late Drake Hogestyn's legacy will be honored. In an interview with PEOPLE at a Days of Our Lives fan event on Nov. 2, Hall opened up about Hogesty

The soap world was shocked and devastated when Days of our Lives star Drake Hogestyn passed away on September 28 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

“We were rolling the dice, because it’s difficult to tell a story of someone’s death or a character’s death while the actor is still alive; albeit [Drake] was fighting, like a tiger, a very difficult disease,” Corday told Soap Opera Digest. “And I made the choice to, ‘Okay, let’s tell the story.’”