Cecilia Rosenberg Obituary Rosenberg Cecilia (Oker-Blom) Cecilia was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on April 8, 1947, to a Finnish father and Swedish mother, the oldest of four children. Although Cecilia grew up in Sweden, as a young girl she often visited her many cousins in Finland, and thats where she also met Peter, her husband to be, when she as a 21-year young beautiful woman attended a party thrown by one of her cousins. That was the beginning of a 49-year long and strong relationship, filled with excitement, adventures and love, and two wonderful sons, Johan and Nicholas. But there were also hardships. Cecilia was a very dedicated wife, mother and grandmother. She fully supported her husbands international career, leaving Sweden and living in Spain, Germany and Belgium before coming to the United States in 1978 to settle in Maple Grove, then moving to Wayzata in 1998 into what she called her most favorite place: Home. Peters constant travelling, not always to Cecilias liking, (although she saw more of the world than most), also meant that she ran the house and mostly on her own brought up the childrenclearly benefitting them. Peter also benefitted from her support, and without her by his side he would never have reached advanced positions in US corporations. As Peters last boss wrote in a message of condolences: "Cecilia was an equally big part in your success". In later years Cecilia had her own career as a successful real estate agent with Coldwell Banker Burnet, and after becoming a real estate broker, started her own company, Macro Realty, which she ran until mid 2009, when the first of many life-threatening events struck her. A massive brain hemorrhage followed by a severe stroke made her wheelchair bound for the rest of her life and ended her real estate career, but not her life despite the 2% survival chance the brain surgeon gave her. For the next eight years Cecilia would continue to beat the odds, fighting off breast cancer (swimming in Iceland eleven days after her surgery) and undergoing successful surgery for pancreatic cancer, until an infection overtook her weakened body on June 10, 2017. Cecilia was comforted by, and with, her entire US based family during the last day of her life. Cecilia was an exceptionally practical and capable person, very hands-on and independent, which made the last years extra hard on her, but now she has regained independence. In the early years, when there wasnt enough money to buy the furniture her family needed, she simply taught herself how to make things on her own. Basic training for when she later in life decided to buy run-down houses and fix them up. As good with tools as any man, she singlehandedly cut down 50 trees to open up the property when the family moved to Wayzata. She made clothes and knitted sweaters for the entire family, even tailoring suits for her husband. One of Cecilias biggest interests was genealogy; -she became an expert researcher and even wrote a book on the subject. Cecilia was multi-talented, unique in many ways, and not only because of the three passports she carried, as a citizen of Sweden, Finland and the US. Cecilia loved life and her family, her grandchildren being the frosting on the cake, and despite her severe difficulties and bodily restrictions, her mental strength never wavered and her spirit was never broken, summed up in her own special saying: "Life is not a commercial"! Cecilia is survived by her mother, two sisters and a brother in Sweden and her husband Peter, two sons, Johan and his wife Stacey and Nicholas and his wife Angela, and five grandchildren, Emma, Wesley, Sophie, Alyce and Carl Axel here in Minnesota. A private family service will be held early July. A Visitation and Memorial Service will be held on Friday, August 18, at 4:00 pm at David Lee Funeral Home, 1220 East Wayzata Boulevard, Wayzata, MN 55391, followed by a Celebration of Life with Cecilias extended family and close friends. In lieu of flowers, memorials preferred to pancreatic cancer research at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.