CHILD'S SHORT LIFE TOUCHED MANY, MOURNERS RECALL.Byline: Cecilia Chan Daily News Staff Writer Ashley Prado could have been anyone's child. And for the last weeks of her life, the 3-year-old who loved to sing and dance and munch munch - To transform information in a serial fashion, often requiring large amounts of computation. To trace down a data structure. Related to crunch and nearly synonymous with grovel, but connotes less pain. Often confused with mung. on potato chips was. In life and in death, the community rallied around the Westlake Village child who was buried Tuesday after battling cancer most of her life. ``This little girl, I never heard her speak a word but she changed my life,'' said Jennifer Oliver of Newbury Park, one of more than 100 mourners who overflowed Pierce Brothers' Chapel of the Oaks. ``She was just an angel.'' The daughter of Wendy Sims and Jesse Prado died Friday of a brain tumor Brain Tumor Definition A brain tumor is an abnormal growth of tissue in the brain. Unlike other tumors, brain tumors spread by local extension and rarely metastasize (spread) outside the brain. that was diagnosed when she was just 6 months old. Oliver and friend Shamra Hanlon learned of the family's plight after Hanlon's paramedic par·a·med·ic n. A person who is trained to give emergency medical treatment or assist medical professionals. paramedic husband, Brian, responded to an emergency at the family's home about a month ago and recounted the situation to his wife. Touched by the situation, the trio quickly embarked on a fund-raising drive Noun 1. fund-raising drive - a campaign to raise money for some cause fund-raising campaign, fund-raising effort crusade, campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement - a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported , plastering plastering, house construction technique involving the application of plaster to walls and ceilings, exterior plasterwork being of a different composition and generally known as stucco. the community with fliers, so the family could pay for Ashley's medical bills. The parents were no longer working so they could give their daughter round-the-clock care. Ashley's parents had thought the girl's cancer was in remission until she lost her vision in October, said Oliver. They sought treatment from specialists but were told just two days before Christmas that there was no hope, she said. ``The sight of a very sweet, innocent girl and a very close-knit family is what got me,'' said Brian Hanlon. ``Probably the thing that caught me most is the situation they were in. No one wants to lose a child.'' Hanlon and members of the International Association of EMTs and Paramedics set up an account in Ashley's name. Shamra Hanlon and Oliver put their own lives on hold and distributed 4,000 fliers and donation boxes Donation box (賽錢箱 chokinbako throughout the communities of Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. , Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. , Newbury Park, Camarillo and parts of Oxnard. Oliver flooded the media with phone calls and e-mail messages to bring attention to the family so in need of help. The association, Sheriff's Department, businesses and strangers dug deep into their pockets, so far donating $2,400, Oliver said. The Rev. Bruce Kitabjian eulogized Ashley, whose small white casket was surrounded by baby roses in one of her favorite colors - pink. ``It was not an easy road for the little girl but she walked it, danced it with personality and style,'' Kitabjian said of Ashley's countless rounds with doctors, hospitals and painful treatments. ``She went to sleep and she awoke in the arms of our heavenly Father.'' Kitabjian described Ashley as a little girl who liked to rummage through her mother's closet for dress-up clothes and whose favorite phrase was ``friends always share.'' Thousand Oaks resident Carol Sherman never met Ashley, whose plight she only read about through a flier she picked up at a restaurant. ``It brought tears to my eyes,'' said Sherman, who did not attend the funeral but plans to send in a donation. ``The child didn't have a chance at life.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour Conejo Edition only) The community rallied around courageous Ashley Prado. |
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