Bre Payton who was a conservative writer for The Federalist and came out as frequent guest on television news channels including Fox News Channel, died at age of 26 on Friday after suffering from sudden illness, her employer reported media.
Miss Payton’s sudden death news shocked those who knew her and also had been working with her at the Federalist website, while she had been on television just days earlier.
Ben Domenech, the founder and the publisher of The Federalist, shared his sorrow over her death via Twitter, “Bre has passed. We are devastated. Last we saw her, she was her funny, smart, vivacious self. Now lost to us so suddenly.”
Bre has passed. We are devastated. Last we saw her, she was her funny, smart, vivacious self. Now lost to us so suddenly. pic.twitter.com/2qJ624A4Dl
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) December 28, 2018
According to doctors’ statement, she had contracted the “H1N1 flu and possibly meningitis,” while Mr. Domenech was asked for prayers some years ago of her death on Friday and connected to a CaringBridge (a charitable 501 nonprofit organization) website that stated Payton was discovered unresponsive on December 27 in San Diego.
However, she was residence of Washington, landed California this week to be a guest-host a show on the One America News Network. On other side, Payton had requested her Twitter followers to stay tune as she will be co-hosting on the show on Wednesday.
If the CaringBridge post is to be believed, on Friday morning, Payton was discovered by her friend hardly breathing and unresponsive.
It is said in a charitable 501 nonprofit group, “She immediately called 911 and Bre was taken to the hospital where she was admitted to the ICU, sedated & intubated, and doctors began working up a diagnosis,”
It added that she was diagnosed the H1N1 flu and possibly meningitis after undergoing a CT scan and some tests.
Nevertheless, The Federalist stated in their post on Friday, they remembered her as someone who “brightened the lives of everyone around her.”
An American conservative online magazine and podcast also stated in this post, Payton was a joyful, compassionate, and hard-working and leaves behind friends and coworkers for whom the 26-year-old conservative writer brought sweetness and light not anymore.
When it comes to her biography at The Federalist, she came out as writer for “subjects ranging from Kanye West to Supreme Court rulings, to 2016 and breaking news.”
Payton had also done for Watchdog.org as a reporter and also bagged her degree in political journalism from Patrick Henry College. She had left her all beloved friends and fans in great sorrow and will be remembered with her best in this world.