DETROIT – Family and friends will come together Monday to remember best-selling author Jeff Zaslow.
Funeral services for Zaslow are set for Monday, February 13 at 1:00 p.m. Services will be held at the Congregation Shaarey Zedek on Bell Road in Southfield.
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Zaslow was killed in a car accident Friday morning. The 53-year-old was on his way home to Metro Detroit, after a speaking engagement Thursday night in Petoskey, when he lost control of his car on a snowy road and collided with a truck.
Zaslow is the husband of WJBK-TV/FOX 2 anchor Sherry Margolis and has three daughters.
He was a regular columnist in the Wall Street Journal. Recently, he became one of America's best-selling nonfiction writers. He is the author of "The Girls from Ames," "The Last Lecture," and more.
Zaslow also received various awards for his work. He was twice named best columnist by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and in 2000 he received its Will Rogers Humanitarian Award.
Arrangements for Jeff Zaslow are being handled by Ira Kaufman Chapel.