Rachael Reed spent decades visiting the island of Roatán. She traveled to the Honduras locale in her teens and quarantined there with her partner, Charmi Fehr, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, she and Fehr put down roots and became owners of a boutique, idyllic hotel.
On Sunday, their love story was cut short.
Reed and Fehr were traveling from Austin to the Bahamas on a private plane with entrepreneur Adam Robinson and his family, whom they called friends. The Learjet crashed near Greenacres and Palm Beach, Florida, killing all nine of its occupants.
Across social media, friends and relatives mourned the couple. They commented on memories of Fehr from his childhood in Paraguay and Reed from her high school years in Oklahoma. Whitney Pyle worked with Reed when she was an ICU nurse. She told Business Insider that Reed showed great kindness to…