| Brian Michael Bush (15 yrs.old): Nov. 24, 1973-Apr. 1, 1989 | |||||||||||
| This St. Jude quilt was made in memory of Brian Michael Bush,who was | |||||||||||
| was a patient at St. Jude from Sept. 1988 to April 1, 1989 when he died | |||||||||||
| of pneumonia going through a bone marrow transplant. The "I believe in | |||||||||||
| Miracles" drawing is the last one made by Brian in the spring of 1989 | |||||||||||
| and it was published in the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital calendar | |||||||||||
| for 1991. | |||||||||||
| The blue logo is from the St. Jude/WLHT 95.7/Brian Bush Memorial | |||||||||||
| Putt-For-Life Tournament. A miniature golf tournament that has been played | |||||||||||
| since 1989 in Grand Rapids, Michigan benefiting St. Jude Children's Research | |||||||||||
| Hospital. The first year, 1989, the Brian Bush family and friends raised only | |||||||||||
$1,000. * In 2007, nineteen years later the Brian Bush Memorial raised $30,000 from | |||||||||||
miniature golf participants. For the last four consecutive years our tournament has raised $30,000. In last twenty (22) years, the Brian Bush Memorial Putt-For-Life has raised $462,000 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to fight cancer and other catastrophic diseases. | |||||||||||
| The first year raising money for St. Jude, we had only 50 | |||||||||||
| participants, this year there were between 350 to 450 people of all ages | |||||||||||
| playing miniature golf to raise money to fight cancer. The fabric squares that | |||||||||||
| are around the perimeter represent the people who loved and cared for Brian and | |||||||||||
the material is from Brian's clothing that his mother, Marge saved.
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| Right side: |
| -White: faith |
| -Red: Peanuts the Clown & work in faith |
| -Blue: Catholic Central High School |
| -Green & white 'Block' S: Michigan State University |
| -Yellow with angels: yellow for St. Jude Hospital, and angels for |
| St. Judes personnel, and John Zacher (photographer at St. Jude) |
| The quilt was put together with love by Mrs. Sue Tusing, a friend of |
| Brians and Bush family |
| To give you some information about Brian, he and his family were |
| very active in charity. Brian helped raise money for St. Judes Hospital |
| at a radio telethon while struggling in his own battle against a brain |
| tumor in January of 1989. Brian spoke to high school students that were |
| overwhelmed with Brian testimony of his acceptance of Jesus at nine |
| years old, and his six (6) year battle with brain tumors and all the |
| while believing God is healing him. Brian's sickness helped families |
| restored their religious devotions, praying together, and non-practicing |
| Catholics returned to their faith. St. Judes was not his first charity |
| work. For 10 years Brian was a clown (Peanuts) for the Knights of |
| Columbus #4362 performing for older people in hospitals and other |
| organizations with his sister Aaran and his dad, Michael. At 7 years |
| old, he became the youngest person in Grand Rapids to receive the |
| "Volunteer In Action Award" for his charity work. Also, he helped his |
| family win the "Family of the Year" award by the Knights of Columbus |
| #4362 for their deep faith and charity work. |
The quilt was made in 2000 with a story about Brian's life. We had the quilt made for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital it tells the story of Brian's life and the quilt is hanging up in Memphis, TN at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
If you happen to go to St Jude just ask and they will show you where the quilt is hung up at or you can also go and type www. Stjude.org, look for Quilt of Hope; type in Bush and you will see the quilt on the Internet.
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