Family
Frei's eldest son, David, has hosted the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show since 1990. He once served as the public relations director for ABC Sports, the Denver Broncos, and the San Francisco 49ers. He has been the WKC's director of communications since 2003. He is an advocate of service dogs, serving in organizations and writing books on the subject.
His second son, Terry, is a sports writer for The Denver Post and his books include: 1, "Olympic Affair: A Novel of Hitler's Siren and America's Hero"; 2, Playing Piano in a Brothel; 3, Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming; 4, Third Down and a War to Go: The All-American 1942 Wisconsin Badgers; 5, '77: Denver, the Broncos and a Coming of Age, and 6, The Witch's Season, a novel clearly based on Frei's Oregon teams and the men and women on the campus in those times.
Frei's daughter, Judy Kaplan, is a former schoolteacher who now is a community volunteer in the Denver area. Another daughter, Susan Frei Earley, is a former principal with the Colorado Ballet who also danced with the Tampa Ballet and Tennessee Dance Theatre. She is the ballet mistress with the Tulsa Ballet. A third daughter, Nancy McCormick, is a senior legal assistant with the Chicago law firm of Barlit, Beck, Herman, Palenchar and Scott. Frei's widow, Marian, died in Lakewood, Colorado, in March 2011.
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