Top Chef Masters alum Naomi Pomeroy has tragically passed away at the age of 49. The former TV star and chef lost her life during a tubing accident. She drowned in the Willamette River in Oregon on July 13. Already an established chef during the time she competed on Bravo’s Top Chef Masters season 3, Naomi rose to further fame on the 2011 TV show. She was self-taught and hailed as “the culinary matriarch of Portland, Oregon,” per her New York Times obituary by Kim Severson. Naomi Pomeroy dies in tubing accidentOn July 13, Naomi Pomeroy sadly lost her life on the Willamette River “near river mi…