Ashley Rose Mitchell
Athlete, artist, professional photographer and advocate for Huntington's Disease awareness, of Elmer, 29
Ashley Rose Mitchell, 29, passed away unexpectedly at her home in Elmer, N.J., on April 6, 2019.
Visiting will be on Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. at the O'Brien Funeral Home, 505 Burnt Tavern Rd., Brick, N.J. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered on Monday at 10 a.m. at St. Dominic's R.C. Church, Brick. Burial will follow at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover, N.J.
Ashley was born in Union, N.J., on May 2, 1989. She later attended school in Brick and Woodstown, N.J.
After Ashley graduated from Woodstown High School, she attended and graduated from Salem County Community College. Next, she went on to DeVry University in North Brunswick, N.J., and completed all coursework, majoring in graphic arts.
She forged her way through school independently, working very hard to accomplish these academic achievements.
During her early childhood in Union, Ashley played soccer and participated very actively in Girl Scouts. Being as athletic and as very competitive as she was, Ashley went on to play softball and basketball in Woodstown. To the day, she always loved playing B-ball with friends and family as "one of the boyz."
Ashley was very artistic and really loved taking pictures. Supporting herself and always being a very hard worker, she had recently started her own business known as Ashley Mitchell Photography. Since being a Girl Scout, Ashley always had a very strong work ethic and a hard drive to achieve her goals.
Unfortunately, very sadly, Ashley was recently diagnosed with Huntington's disease. HD is a fatal neurological disease that degenerately takes your life. Miserably, she was the latest victim of HD, which has decimated the Mitchell Family.
But, Amazing Ashley, even with this incurable fatal diagnosis, immediately became an even larger champion in the fight for a cure of HD.
With the devastation the disease has inflicted on the generations of the Mitchell Family, Ashley was utterly impassioned to raise awareness and money for HD and was, most recently, writing a book. She wanted to share a family chronology, a life history of the effects on her personally and predeceased family.
Family and friends will sadly miss her awesome smile, her great sense of humor, her passion for life, and her "raising one eyebrow" face, like the Rock.
Donations may be made in her name to the Huntington's Disease Foundation, P.O. Box 943, Denville, N.J. 07834.
For more information, please visit obrienfuneralhome.com.