Ashley Moffit-Sullivan was studying in Spain when she was diagnosed with leukemia.

The 2005 Enumclaw High School graduate and University of Washington student returned to Washington to battle the disease and continue her studies, but, according to friends, vowed to return to Spain.

After a three-year fight, Moffit-Sullivan died May 6, and now her friends are working to raise money to send her husband, her mother and her ashes back to Spain.

“She wanted to go back to Spain,” said friend Megan Conneway, who along with Mandie Sayler and others are trying to make Moffit-Sullivan’s dream come true. “She didn’t get to finish her sixth-month study abroad.”

In an effort to see her final wishes realized, the Ashley Moffit Memorial Fund has been set up at Columbia Bank branches.

During her illness, Conneway and Sayler worked on fundraisers to help the family with medical costs. Now, they said, with the family facing the addition of funeral costs and student loans, they want to help out more.

“The whole point of this is for us to help the family out,” Conneway said of the memorial fund. “You always hear about what a struggle it is, but until you actually experience it you never know.”

Despite her illness, Moffit-Sullivan graduated with honors from the University of Washington with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Latino studies and had hoped to teach English in Spain.