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‘My Heart Is Aching': Mark Rosen Announces Wife Denise ‘Passed Peacefully'

Joe Biden: "Your love and support for Denise will go a long way in making her feel comfortable and confident as she courageously battles."

August 31, 2021

Former WCCO sports director Mark Rosen says that his wife Denise has died, three years after being diagnosed with brain cancer.

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“My heart is aching. My beautiful wife, Denise, passed peacefully from Glioblastoma,” Rosen said in a tweet Monday afternoon.

“She didn’t ‘lose’ her battle with Brain Cancer, she lived her life to the fullest for the past 3 years,” Mark Rosen said Monday. “My eternal thanks to the Givens Brain Tumor Center and the Little Hospice House.”

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