WILMINGTON — Funeral plans for Alec Chambers are set to take place the first week of the new year, as friends plan a memorial skate at Greenfield Skate Park Wednesday, while also launching a petition to change the name of the park in his honor.
Chambers, 32, died in a fatal DWI incident, after being struck by a vehicle at Satellite Bar and Lounge on Tuesday, Dec. 30.
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A professional skateboarder, Chambers’ obituary describes him as a talented artist and bartender, with a mega-million smile, “extremely loved by all who knew him,” and “making a friend of everyone he met.”
His funeral will take place Friday, Jan. 9, 11 a.m., at Andrews Mortuary Market Street Chapel, with services beginning at 1 p.m. Interment will follow at Oakdale Cemetery.
However, the skating community also will honor him Wednesday at Greenfield Skate Park at 1:30 p.m. In addition, a petition has been started to prompt the City of Wilmington to change the name of Greenfield Skate Park to Alec Chambers Skate Park. It explains Chambers frequented the park, made friends there and spent hours “refining his skills.”
“Renaming the skate park would serve as an enduring testament to Alec’s contributions and a daily reminder of the positive influence he had in our lives and on generations of skateboarders,” the petition indicates.
Chambers was struck by a vehicle Tuesday just after midnight, as he was standing in a parking lot beside Satellite, facing Greenfield Street. An impaired driver hit him in a Jeep, before the vehicle also struck a tree and crashed into the fenced-in area of Satellite’s outdoor patio.
Chambers died at the scene and 34-year-old Michelle Lane Masiello has been charged with death by vehicle, driving while impaired, reckless driving to endanger, and injury to real property. She was given a $255,000 secured bond.
On Tuesday evening, Satellite Bar and Lounge announced it would be closed for the foreseeable future in honor of Chambers, who the management team called a friend of the establishment.
“He was truly family to us at Satellite, and we loved him so much,” Satellite posted to social media. “Alec was a gentle soul, an incredible artist, and deeply loved in the skate community — he was happiest skateboarding. We’re forever changed in the BEST ways to have had him in our lives. This loss is unimaginable for his family and we will feel it for a very long time. He was taken far too soon.”
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