Plans are underway for two “Celebration of Life” events for Sunshine “Sunny” Stewart, the Maine paddleboarder recently murdered. Stewart was a seasonal resident at Mic Mac Family Campground in Union.
Kim Ware, Sunny’s sister, announced that the first “Celebration of Life” will be held in Tenants Harbor on August 10. A second is being planned for September on St. John in the Virgin Islands.
Stewart’s body was discovered on an island on Crawford Pond after she never returned from a solo paddleboard trip earlier this month.
Her death was ruled a homicide with strangulation and blunt force trauma ruled as the cause of death.
17-year-old Deven Young of Frankfort is accused of killing the 48-year-old from Tenants Harbor.
Two Celebration of Life events will be held for Sunshine "Sunny" Stewart. https://t.co/ykL8XQOSSf
— CBS 13 News (@WGME) July 22, 2025
Deven Young was 12 weeks shy of his 18th birthday on the night police say he strangled and beat a Maine woman to death on an island in Crawford Pond in Union. If prosecutors have their way, he will be put on trial for murder as an adult.
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— CBS 13 News (@WGME) July 22, 2025
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