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Veteran journalist Frank Haden has died after a long battle with prostate cancer. His wife, Merle, said Haden, 77, spent his final weeks at the St Joseph's Home of Compassion in Heretaunga, Upper Hutt.
He did not want a funeral service and a private cremation would be held.
Haden, who died on Monday, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1998 but revealed his condition only in December last year when it forced him to give up his newspaper columns.
