Loved ones and a church community are mourning the loss of a couple and their unborn baby following the apparent drowning of a pregnant Washington state woman and her husband in Hawaii.

A heartbreaking incident occurred in Maui, where a pregnant woman and her husband tragically drowned while on vacation. The couple has been identified as Ilya Tsaruk and Sophia Kovalevich of Snohomish, a city about 30 miles north of Seattle.

“She was going to become a girl mom,” her sister-in-law Tia Tsuark, who was with the couple with her husband Tony Tsuark on vacation on the island of Maui when they died, said. “They never came back to us.”

Emergency services, including Maui firefighters and ocean safety personnel, responded swiftly to reports of snorkelers in distress near the north side of Ahihi-Kinau Natural Area Reserve. A rescue team member on a jet ski first discovered the unresponsive body of a 26-year-old woman, who was pulled from the water and brought to shore for CPR. While firefighters concentrated their resuscitation efforts on her, the jet ski operator continued the search for the 25-year-old man who had been with her.

The man was found submerged 100-150 yards from the shore. Despite the rescue team’s strenuous attempts to revive them, both individuals were pronounced dead at the scene by emergency medical services.

The Tsaruks were expecting their second child at the time of the tragedy. Sophia was pregnant with a baby girl, and the couple leaves behind their 18-month-old son, Logan, who was staying with his aunt and uncle during the trip.

According to a GoFundMe account organized by Andrey Tupikov, the couple attended Sulamita Slavic Church, where they sang in the church choir.

“We lost a dear sister and brother, daughter and son, and beautiful niece, but we know that heaven received and gained the three of them with open arms,” Tupikov wrote in the fundraiser he created to help the victims’ family, including an 18-month-old Logan. To date, nearly 1,000 people have donated more than $134,000 to the fundraiser.

“Ilya and Sophia both loved the Lord and were always serving in the church and serving people around them,” Tupikov wrote.

“We are blessed to have had both of them in our lives and are left now with the sweet memories and moments that we shared together with them,” the GoFundMe page reads. “Their serving spirit and warm company will never be forgotten, and may God help us all to love and serve one another as Ilya and Sophia served.”

A celebration of life and funeral service, the fundraiser says, is set for September 26th and 27th.