Vaidehi Campbell-Williams Obituary

Vaidehi Campbell-Williams attended Santa Cruz High School in Santa Cruz, CA. View the obituary, post a memory, or share a photo about Vaidehi Campbell-williams.

Graduation Year	Class of 1995
Date of Passing	Sep 02, 2019
About	Vaidehi Campbell Williams died as she lived, on an adventure. Always full of energy and light, Vaidehi was a world traveler who had dear friends on every piece of the globe she touched. Her love of water, the ocean and sea life carried through all aspects of her life. Vaidehi grew up in Santa Cruz with her mother and sister and surrounded by a wide and loving extended family and community. Her father has always remained a loving part of her life and, in the last few years, they were especially close. In high school she was a competitive swimmer, played clarinet in the band, and was in school plays. After attending Scripps College, including a semester studying the water systems in Madagascar, Vaidehi created a career for herself at the Soquel Creek Water District, where she remained for 18 years. Locally, over the years, she sang with Pacific Voices Choir, participated in Leadership Santa Cruz, and was a great fan of Samba Da. Her love of music would find her at weekly beach concerts, Moes Alley dance shows and where ever else friends were playing and dancing. She started attending the Strawberry Music Festival when she was 11 and remained part of that strong community. Vaidehi is remembered as a resounding echo of light and joy with an enthusiasm for life and friends and family. Her love of good food, good wine, dance, song and travel was contagious. She was a vivacious, giving, and present friend, known throughout the community as a leader, environmental advocate and teacher, and wonderful wife, mother, daughter, friend, and sister,; even always including her younger sister in all of her activities since they were little. She had the amazing gift of making everyone who met her feel a special connection. Vaidehi married her high school sweetheart, Sarma Williams, after he proposed in front of her whole family at her college graduation, and they have been together for 25 years. They have two amazing children who reflect her joie de vivre and sense of love and adventure.