<p>The widow of former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/barack-obama" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barack Obama&#8217;s</a> personal chef sent out a tribute to her late husband after he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-white-house-chef-found-dead-after-paddle-boarding-accident-near-former-presidents-marthas-vineyard-mansion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found dead on Monday</a> in a pond near the Obama family estate in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marthas-vineyard">Martha&#8217;s Vineyard</a>.</p>
<p>Authorities said divers <a href="https://www.mspnews.org/post/update-2-msp-divers-environmental-police-recover-body-of-paddle-boarder-from-edgartown-great-pond" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recovered</a> the body of Tafari Campbell, 45, from the Edgartown Great Pond after a paddle boarding incident in which he was seen getting into the water, struggling to stay on the surface, and <a href="https://www.mspnews.org/post/update-2-msp-divers-environmental-police-recover-body-of-paddle-boarder-from-edgartown-great-pond" target="_blank" rel="noopener">submerging without resurfacing</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;My heart is broken,&#8221; Sherise Campbell, Tafari&#8217;s wife, said in an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CvHePWIuK3a/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram post</a> on Tuesday. &#8220;My life and our family&#8217;s life is forever changed. Please pray for me and our families as I deal with the loss of my husband.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">An employee of former President Barack Obama died while paddle boarding near the family’s Martha’s Vineyard residence, state police and the Obamas said. <a href="https://twitter.com/EmilieIkedaNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EmilieIkedaNBC</a> reports on the latest. <a href="https://t.co/JJGfKDXzHB">pic.twitter.com/JJGfKDXzHB</a></p>
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<p>The message came from an account for Sweet Sage, a Washington, D.C., metropolitan-area baking and catering business <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjZYWvmhUYo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">owned by Sherise Campbell</a>.</p>
<p>A joint statement from Barack Obama and his wife <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michelle-obama" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michelle Obama</a> called Tafari Campbell a &#8220;beloved part of our family&#8221; and a &#8220;talented sous chef at the White House&#8221; whom they invited to continue working for them upon leaving the Executive Residence in early 2017.</p>
<p>&#8220;He’s been part of our lives ever since, and our hearts are broken that he’s gone,” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/24/us/obama-employee-marthas-vineyard-house-drowning/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">their statement said</a>. “Today we join everyone who knew and loved Tafari – especially his wife Sherise and their twin boys, Xavier and Savin – in grieving the loss of a truly wonderful man.”</p>
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<p>The Massachusetts State Police (MSP) said a joint-agency search operation got underway after Martha&#8217;s Vineyard Police and firefighters responded to a call at 7:46 p.m. on Sunday about a male paddle boarder who disappeared in the pond. An <a href="https://www.mspnews.org/post/joint-agency-search-underway-for-missing-paddle-boarder-on-edgartown-great-pond" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initial statement</a> from the agency said another paddle boarder was with Campbell and witnessed him go under the water.</p>
<p>With the help of side-scan sonar from a boat, divers were able to recover the body approximately 100 feet from the shore at a depth of about 8 feet on Monday morning, MSP said in a <a href="https://www.mspnews.org/post/update-2-msp-divers-environmental-police-recover-body-of-paddle-boarder-from-edgartown-great-pond" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second statement</a>. The agency also said an investigation into the fatality was being conducted by the State Police Detective Unit for the Cape and Islands District and Edgartown Police.</p>
<p>A <a href="https://www.mspnews.org/post/update-3-joint-search-operation-underway-for-missing-paddle-boarder-on-edgartown-great-pond?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=blog.post-promoter&amp;utm_campaign=74f3a1c0-b286-4c3f-9859-7aa53f5e018f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">third release</a> from MSP identified Campbell as the deceased paddle boarder and described the drowning as an &#8220;accident.&#8221; The agency additionally noted that Barack and Michelle Obama were not &#8220;present&#8221; at the residence at the time of the incident.</p>

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