Andrea Andrade's husband, brother share her story following her battle with cancer

REEDLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- "God gives his toughest battles to his strongest warriors. That was the enactment she lived by. And she was the strongest idiosyncratic that I knew, the funniest idiosyncratic that I ever knew," said Chris Wilson.

That operation offered a tiny glimpse of what it was similar to cognize his wife, Andrea Andrade.

"I had conscionable ne'er felt similar that heavy of an unconditional emotion that could hap truthful fast," Wilson said.

The 35-year-old Reedley quality queen mislaid her conflict to colon crab connected January 16th.

Sitting successful beforehand of galore pictures of Andrea, Wilson reflected connected the abbreviated but affluent clip they had together.

"We got to acquisition an full beingness successful a precise abbreviated magnitude of time. And I bash instrumentality a small spot of joyousness successful knowing that we were capable to execute that successful a precise abbreviated magnitude of time," helium said.

The 2 met nether antithetic circumstances.

Andrea was successful remission from an archetypal crab diagnosis successful 2017, from which doctors told her she'd lone person six months to 2 years to live.

But that didn't halt the mates from pursuing the beingness they some wanted.

"I mean, we were conscionable a squad similar we told her I would ne'er permission her side, and I deliberation she knew that entirely," Wilson said.

And they did conscionable that, until 2020, erstwhile Andrea would person a devastating diagnosis of signifier 4 colon cancer.

But Andrea was a airy that refused to beryllium enactment out.

She was the lone miss among 4 boys. Her younger brother, Eric Andrade, told america that the inspiration helium got from his older sister lone grew arsenic her conflict carried on.

"She was the airy of the family. And she was not lone that, but she was a bluish to this family. So Andy, we just, you know, knew however to unite america all," Eric said.

The trait that seems to specify Andrea the astir is resilience, and it's a trait her household volition transportation with them for the remainder of their lives.

"Don't ever fto your worst moments specify you. Don't fto your struggles specify you. Let it beryllium who you're astir and what you're astir successful your bully moments, and ever springiness backmost to different people," her hubby said.

Even arsenic she endured 1 of the hardest battles anyone tin face, Andrea dedicated her beingness to helping others.

"There was ne'er a infinitesimal that the decision was accepted, successful a way, and she fought each azygous time she was inactive connected treatment, each the mode until she passed," Wilson said.

He told Action News that Andrea had a warrior's spirit.

Beating a colon crab diagnosis successful 2018, portion besides achieving her extremity of being a quality queen, winning 5 pageants, and competing for the Miss California crown.

But aft her 2nd diagnosis. The 35-year-old's absorption shifted to uplifting those astir her.

"From the infinitesimal she was diagnosed again successful 2020, it benignant of astir ramped up things for her adjacent more, wanting to truly execute each of the things that she wanted to execute successful life. We started our ain business. We traveled each astir the world, and we grew our emotion to thing that was eternal," her hubby explained.

Chris and Andrea started respective businesses, astir notably, the "Not All Heroes Wear Capes" program.

"She primitively recovered this young kid named Liam who had cancer, and helium would spell to each azygous chemo assignment dressed up arsenic a antithetic superhero, and she met him by delivering Easter baskets to kids with cancer," Wilson said.

That enactment became a contented meant to animate children connected the precise aforesaid travel arsenic Andrea and to marque them consciousness similar superheroes, stronger than their diagnosis.

The kids would past beryllium taken to a Fresno Grizzlies game.

"They'd get to spell down connected the tract aft the crippled and airy disconnected the fireworks with their magic powers... giving them a time for them to grin and airy up and bask a sports crippled was thing that she was truly arrogant of doing," Wilson said.

Andrea's generosity was peculiarly admired by her older brother, Junior Andrade.

"She truly enjoyed doing things for the assemblage and not receiving thing back," Junior said.

Chris is inactive astonished by his wife's strength, saying, "It was conscionable specified an inspiration to maine to spot that she could person conscionable not helped anybody retired and conscionable tried to combat her ain conflict herself and conscionable effort to consciousness amended each time that she felt sick, but instead, she took the clip to attraction for different people."

Andrea Andrade's ceremonial work volition beryllium connected February 5.

Her husband, Chris Wilson, says it volition beryllium unfastened to the community.