( ANNAPOLIS, Md .) — Their own bodies of the daughter of former Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend was located in about 25 hoofs of sea and recovered, governments said Monday, and they are able to retain sought for her son, after the two went missing following a canoeing coincidence last week.

The body of Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, was located by Charles County Dive and Rescue and recovered about 2.5 miles south of her mother’s residence in Shady Side, Maryland, where the canoe was launched, Maryland Natural Assets Police said. The retrieval came after a days-long search that involved aviation and underwater imaging sonar technology.

Maeve McKean’s husband, David, in a Facebook post Friday said their family was self-quarantining in an empty-bellied mansion owned by his wife’s mother hoping to give their babies more opening to run around than they had at their home in Washington, D.C.

Kennedy Townsend-Missing Relatives Twitter/APThis undated persona posted on Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean’s Twitter accounting shows her lad Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean. Authority were searching for the daughter and a grandson of onetime Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on Friday, April 3, 2020, after a canoe they were paddling in the Chesapeake Bay didn’t return to shore.

Authorities say they will resume scouring Tuesday for her lad, 8-year-old Gideon McKean. The examination started Thursday after officials responded to a report of two beings on a canoe in the Chesapeake Bay who appeared to be overtaken by strong winds.

David McKean, who said he was heartbroken to even have to try to explain who his son was, described him as an old boy. “He might as well have been 38, ” he said in his berth. “He was deeply compassionate, declining to sing children’s chorus if they contained a indicate of animals or beings being treated severely .”

He said he used to marvel at his son as a toddler, fantasizing he was too perfect to exist in this world. “It seems to me now that he was ,” McKean said.

He described his wife as his best friend and soulmate whose laugh you could hear a block away.

“She was magical–with endless energy that she would put toward devising tournaments for “their childrens”, taking on another projection at work or in our community, and spend time with our friends ,” McKean wrote. “She was the brightest sun I have ever known.”

Maeve McKean, a public health and human rights lawyer, helped as executive director of the Georgetown University Global Health Initiative. The initiative’s website says her work focused on “the intersection of world-wide state and human rights.” McKean previously acted as an accompanied experiment professor at the City University of New York School of Public Health.

Kennedy Townsend, who sufficed two words as Maryland’s lieutenant governor, is the eldest daughter of the late U.S. Us attorney general and U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and niece of the late President John F. Kennedy.

“Our Maeve dedicated their own lives to society’s most vulnerable, ” Kennedy Townsend said in a statement Friday night, adding that her grandson Gideon was a “loving” big brother who excelled at sports, questions, math and chess. “My heart is vanquished, hitherto we shall try to summon the kindnes of God and what fortitude we have to honor the hope, power and passion that Maeve and Gideon set forth into the world.”

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