Springsteen’s books, albums and memorabilia are all around their house. The whole family became fans because Springsteen is “a fine, fine person with a lot of integrity - as was Jeff,” Margolis said. Zaslow’s favorite performing artist, and that inscription is on her wedding band. Margolis said the couple’s song was the romantic “Drive All Night” by Bruce Springsteen, Mr. “We danced and were together at the wedding, and then had a commuter relationship for two years until we got married in my hometown of Buffalo 24 years ago on the Fourth of July.” “As soon as we saw each other the night before the wedding, it was like the universe had shifted,” Margolis said. Zaslow was by then a Chicago-based columnist for The Wall Street Journal she was working as a broadcaster in Detroit. No sparks happened, she said, until they met three years later at the same friend’s wedding. A colleague there introduced him to a friend, Sherry Margolis, a Buffalo native. Zaslow’s first professional job was at the Orlando Sentinel in Florida. After high school, he majored in creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.įollowing his 1980 graduation, Mr. He dictated his first story at age 6, had his first poem published at 9 and won $500 in a poetry contest when he was 12. Lisa Zaslow Segelman said at the service that she always idolized her older brother who would come home and “tell me everything he learned about kindergarten that day.” Zaslow and his family belonged to Beth El Suburban Synagogue. Zaslow’s best-selling books.Ī native of the Philadelphia suburb of Broomall, born in 1958, Mr. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the hero airline pilot who was the subject of one of Mr. Zaslow’s “unfinished life.” Several family members and friends also spoke, among them, the three Zaslow daughters: Jordan, 22 Alexandra, 20, and Eden, 16 his mother, Naomi Zaslow and Capt. In his eulogy, Rabbi Krakoff compared composer Franz Schubert’s acclaimed “Unfinished Symphony” to Mr. The overflowing sanctuary - with upwards of 1,500 people - included many colleagues from the media as well as people of all walks of life whose lives he had touched. 13 at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, where the Zaslow family belonged. Krakoff and Cantor Meir Finkelstein officiated at his funeral held Feb. near Elmira, on snow-covered M-32, about a half mile from US-131. Zaslow was driving home from an overnight in Petoskey to promote his latest book The Magic Room: A Story About the Love We Wish for Our Daughters when he lost control of his car and skidded into the path of a tractor-trailor. Zaslow, 53, of West Bloomfield, the husband of Fox 2 News Detroit anchor Sherry Margolis, perished in an automobile accident in northern Michigan. His outstanding personal qualities and body of work are what family, friends and fans everywhere will remember following his shocking death on Feb. Jeff ZaslowĪ gifted writer and family man noted for his compassion, insight and humor, Jeffrey Zaslow always lived the way he advised in a television interview earlier this year: “You have to make the most of each moment, because … you never know.” Family and friends mourn the lost of an inspiring writer and a true mentsh.
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