Tragic Loss: Obama Chef Passes Away Throughout Paddleboarding Accident on Martha’s Winery

The Obamas mentioned that they had requested Mr. Campbell to remain on with them as they had been on the brink of go away the White Home.

“He’s been a part of our lives ever since,” they mentioned. “Our hearts are damaged that he’s gone.”

Based on their assertion, Mr. Campbell’s survivors embody his spouse, Sherise, and twin boys, Xavier and Savin.

The Obamas, longtime summer time guests to Martha’s Winery, bought a secluded 30-acre property on the south shore in 2019 for $11.75 million. Their seven-bedroom, 6,900-square-foot-house fronts Edgartown Nice Pond with views of a barrier seaside and ocean. The nonetheless, brackish, coastal pond has a number of inlets which might be standard amongst leisure boaters, particularly amongst kayakers and paddleboarders hoping to absorb a spectacular sundown.

The Nationwide Climate Service reported truthful and clear circumstances on Sunday evening, with a excessive temperature round 70 levels.

Mr. Obama has visited the Winery since his days as an Illinois senator and spent a part of each August on the island for seven of the eight years he was in workplace, skipping 2012 throughout a re-election marketing campaign.

This isn’t the primary time a chef for a former American president has died in a sudden method. Walter Scheib, a former government chef throughout the administrations of Presidents Invoice Clinton and George W. Bush, drowned by accident in 2015 after happening a hike in Toas, N.M.