8/6/13 - Funeral services are scheduled this weekend for a Brighton man and his son who are both presumed dead following a fishing trip in the Canadian wilderness. The family has a private memorial planned on Friday for 70-year-old Earl Zellen of Brighton and his 40-year-old son Matt Zellen of Bloomfield Hills. Funeral services are then planned Saturday at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Brighton Township. Visitation is at 9:30am, to be followed by a 10:00 funeral mass. The father and son left July 21st for the trip, a couple hundred miles from the Arctic Circle. They failed to show up a week later for their scheduled charter flight home and authorities suspect the two men fell into the frigid water and died. Extensive ground and aerial searches were conducted but later called off. Canadian news outlets report that their boat was found about eight miles from their camp and out of fuel, with all of their survival gear and life jackets still inside. Earl Zellen was a retired Ford executive while Matt owned the Detroit Outfitters store in Warren. (JM)
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