Two parents from England are honoring their late daughter after she passed away from a rare type of brain tumor in March 2023. Lily Harley was only four years old when she was diagnosed with grade 3 ependymoma brain tumor in January 2022. After fighting cancer for over a year, Lily tragically lost her battle in March 2023, according to SWNS. Lily’s parents, Emily Morton, 26, and Josh Harley, 28, are now attempting to make their daughter’s dying wish come true.

Morton said that before their daughter died, all Lily wanted to do was go on a beach vacation with her family. The parents are ow trying to honor their daughter’s wish by leaving rocks with her name at all of the beaches they visit. “When she died, we wanted to get away and go on that holiday in her honor, and felt like leaving a pebble with her name on it is a way of taking her to all of the places we never got to,” she told SWNS. The parents have created a charity called Lily’s Rainbow Fund with OSCAR’s Pediatric Brain Tumor Charity to help support other children with brain tumors. With the help of the charity, Harley’s friends and family began painting rocks and bringing them around the world in her honor. Over 100 rocks have been painted and Lily’s legacy has been able to visit over 60 locations. Lily’s legacy has been able to travel to Spain, Italy, Scotland, Canada and so many more. “We don’t want her to be forgotten, [but] we also want to be a part of something much bigger and help raise funds and awareness for pediatric brain tumors,” said Lily’s mom. “Nothing will bring Lily back, so we need to do what we can with our experience to try and ensure [that] as [few] families as possible go through this.” Morton said that Lily would have wanted to help others. “We know that Lily would have wanted this — she’d have loved the attention and helping others,” she said.