He’s been part of our lives ever since, and our hearts are broken that he’s gone,” the statement continued. “That’s why, when we were getting ready to leave the White House, we asked Tafari to stay with us, and he generously agreed. In the years that followed, we got to know him as a warm, fun, extraordinarily kind person who made all of our lives a little brighter.”
“When we first met him, he was a talented sous chef at the White House – creative and passionate about food, and its ability to bring people together. “Tafari was a beloved part of our family,” said the Obamas in their statement. White House chef Tafari Campbell seen in 2008 on the South Lawn of the White House. He continued to work for the couple after Obama’s eight-year term. In a joint statement emailed to CNN, Barack and Michelle Obama said they had first met Campbell when he worked as a sous chef at the White House. Police used a side-scan sonar from a boat to locate him and divers from the department’s underwater recovery unit recovered his body, which was about 100 feet from the shore at a depth of about 8 feet. Monday from Edgartown Great Pond, a police news release said. Massachusetts Environmental Police officers recovered Campbell’s body shortly before 10 a.m.
Another paddleboarder on the pond with him at the time witnessed him go under the water, according to the release. He went “into the water, appeared to briefly struggle to stay on the surface, and then submerged and did not resurface,” an earlier state police news release said.
Tafari Campbell, 45, “was employed by former President Obama and was visiting Martha’s Vineyard at the time of his passing,” according to a Monday news release from Massachusetts State Police.Ĭampbell was reported missing early Sunday evening after going paddleboarding, police said. A former White House chef who was working for the Obama family was found dead Monday in a pond on the south shore of Martha’s Vineyard, according to Massachusetts police.
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