Obituary
Ashley Soulé Conroy, age 21, died on March 11, 2006, from a tragic accidental fall while studying abroad in India. Having attended St. Martin's Episcopal School in Metairie since pre-kindergarten, Ashley graduated in 2003. While there, she was an All-State and All-Metro Volleyball Star, co-captain of the Volleyball team, as well as the Homecoming Queen. She was presented at the Bienville Club in her senior year. Ashley, who was a junior at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, was placed in the Distinguished Category for Faculty Honors and accepted into the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She also was employed part-time at Meritage, a restaurant in Charleston, where her co-workers were like a second family.
Family Press Statement
On Saturday, March 11, 2006, the Conroy family was notified that their daughter, Ashley Soulé Conroy, had died in a tragic fall in India at 4:00 a.m. March 12, 2006, India time. Ashley, a junior on the Dean's List at the College of Charleston, had been on a Junior Year Abroad program with Pacific Village Institute ("PVI"), an overseas study program with its international headquarters in New York City.
Pilgrimage to India comes to tragic end St. Martin star grad dies of unknown causes
TIMES-PICAYUNE, Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - As an advanced yoga student, Ashley Conroy had a deep passion for Eastern religions and culture. But there was only so much reading and Web surfing she could do. A 2003 graduate of St. Martin's Episcopal School in Metairie, where she was homecoming queen and co-captain of the volleyball team, Conroy wanted to experience the culture up close.
No foul play is suspected in woman's death in India Metairie 21-year-old apparently fell off roof of Buddhist center
TIMES-PICAYUNE, Saturday, March 25, 2006 - A 21-year-old Metairie woman who died earlier this month while participating in an overseas study program in India fell 30 feet to her death from a rooftop meditation site at a Buddhist retreat center, her father said Friday.
Parents design memorial to daughter
METAIRIE-PICAYUNE, Sunday, June 3, 2007 - Peterson Harter, a graduate of St. Martin's Episcopal School, stared at the photograph of Ashley Conroy sitting in a boat on the Ganges River in India..
Exhibit pays tribute to St. Martin grad
METAIRIE-PICAYUNE, Thursday, October 23, 2008 - The second annual fundraiser for the Ashley Soule’ Conroy Foundation will be held Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. in the auditorium of St. Martin’s Episcopal School, 5309 Airline Drive, Metairie.