Ashley's Story

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NBC4 Health & Fitness Expo Please plan to stop by the Foundation booth at the NBC4 Health & Fitness Expo on January 16 & 17, 2010 at the Washington Convention Center.

Ashley Anne Fister Cole, a wife, daughter, sister and friend departed Earth for Heaven at the much too young age of twenty-eight due to the challenges of melanoma. She was diagnosed in July 1999 and, after taking a year of self-injections of Interferon (Intron-A), she was shown to have no signs of cancer in January 2001. While living her dream of teaching in a Kindergarten class at Wakefield Forest Elementary School, she was diagnosed with a recurrence in February 2002. She valiantly battled through three different chemotherapy regimens, all the while raising money for and participating in the Avon Breast Cancer 3-day walk, organizing a team from her school and completing the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 5K, walking in the Relay for Life event for the American Cancer Society, and visiting her Kindergarten class as often as she could.