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The Ashley Albright Memorial Pottery Scholarship Foundation, Inc., is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit scholarship foundation created to honor Ashley. The foundation will give annual scholarships to needy and talented students in the Production Pottery Program at Montgomery Community College in Troy, N.C., where Ashley was a student.The Foundation has been funded by donations, sales of pottery donated by NC Potters which can be seen by clicking the link above entitled "The Pottery," and the link below entitled "Donated Pottery," sales of an 18 month calendar (See link "Calendar” at the bottom of this page), and sales of two pottery related prints, one entitled "The Claymakers" which features six famous NC Potters making clay at the "Jugtown Pottery" ( Phil Morgan, Vernon Owens, Mike Ferree, Ben Owen, III, Travis Owens, and Clyde Gobble), and one entitled "Loading the Kiln" featuring Vernon Owens and his son, Travis loading the "Jugtown Pottery" salt kiln.
The prints are $75.00 each plus shipping of $10.00 and NC Sales Tax for NC Residents. Calendars are $12.00 each or two for $20.00, plus $5.00 each for shipping. The Claymakers is a limited edition print of 300 and Loading the Kiln is a limited edition print of 100. They are printed using 200 year archival ink on 300 lb acid free paper.
The Ashley Albright Memorial Pottery Scholarship Foundation, Inc.
c/o Ben Albright, Attorney
101 Weatherly Square
Ramseur, N.C. 27316
(336) 824-4802
e-mail: ben@ashleyalbright.com
Ashley Elizabeth Albright
January 25, 1982 - December 10, 2006
Ashley's Story
Life is made up of individual stories. We all have our individual stories and together they make up our collective journey through this world. This is Ashley’s story.
This is a story of innocence and the weakness and frailty of our bodies to human disease, but it is also a happy story of a little girl who never lost the innocence of youth and who seemed to be here to make others cheerful. Ashley smiled and she hugged and she loved, oh she loved. Even in her last month she hugged a stranger. Later the stranger told how much it meant. This lady had lost a son to death a couple of years ago. Did Ashley know she needed comfort and was hurting, I think so.
Its also a story of family. It’s a story of parents who loved her and brothers who loved, protected, and defended her. It’s a story of doing everything humanly possible to fight the disease, and then having failed, trying daily to make her life as normal as possible. And she was happy, her mother made sure of that. She was daddy’s little girl.
Its a story of community, a community of people who tried to help Ashley but who were spiritually healed by Ashley. It’s a story of a wonderful Christian school with devoted and loving teachers who even after graduation never let Ashley Graduate. It’s a story of a Pottery class who took Ashley in and loved her. It’s a story of professional potters in Seagrove adopting and helping Ashley. And it’s a story of a little Church with kind and loving members who cared and nourished Ashley. We are all better because of Ashley.
It’s a story of friends and family. Devoted friends and family members who tried and did make her happy and who loved her and who she loved back.
It's a story of a little girl who probably touched each of you here today. We wanted this to be a celebration of her life but its so sad. God gave us sadness so we could appreciate happiness. Even her doctors have wept out of sadness and of the joy of having known such a kind person. I think all who knew her have wept and fought back the tears.
She was a brilliant little girl and she was so beautiful. When she was two, you could read her a page from a new child’s book just once and when we opened the page a second time she could say every word on the page. Even after disease, she seemed to know and sense how to make others feel better, her smile, her hugs, her kisses. Perhaps when some things are taken in disease, God enhances other senses. Ashley could sense how to make others happy.
She loved her pottery but she probably loved giving away her little whistles and candle holders more than anything. She loved to see how much others appreciated the little gifts. Oh what a smile when she handed out her goods.
Ashley Elizabeth Albright
January 25, 1982
December 10, 2006
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The Ashley Albright Memorial Pottery Scholarship Foundation
c/o Ben Albright, Attorney at Law
101 Weatherly Square
Ramseur, N.C. 27316
336-824-4802
ben@ashleyalbright.com
