Former Pittsburgh Steelers Coach Bill Cowher's Wife, Kaye Cowher Dies After Long Battle with Skin Cancer

Kaye Cowher, wife of former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher dies in native NC after long battle with skin cancer.

Kaye Cowher, wife of former Pittsburgh Steelers' coach Bill Cowher, died on Friday in North Carolina, after waging a long battle with skin cancer.

According to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the two met while they were classmates at North Carolina State University in 1976 and married in 1981.

The Pittsburgh Post Gazette said Kaye Cowher was the driving force behind her husband's retirement in 2007. She reportedly pressed him to move with her and their youngest daughter to North Carolina, help with the commute to basketball games, reunite the nuclear family before their final daughter left the nest.

The Cowhers have three daughters, Meagan, Lauren, and Lindsay, the Post-Gazette said.