Buttons Bush putts her golf-ball into a hole at the Alzheimer's Association's Longest Day golf tournament fundraiser on Saturday, June 18 at the Bird Homestead golf course in Funny River. Her teammates looking on are Keith Stewart (left), husband Bob Bush, and daughter Karen Burger. Bush's team - one of the nine competing - wore purple, the Alzheimer's Association's awareness color. Burger, an organizer, said that the tournament had raised $1,900 for Alzheimer's disease research before its conclusion Saturday night.

Buttons Bush putts her golf-ball into a hole at the Alzheimer's Association's Longest Day golf tournament fundraiser on Saturday, June 18 at the Bird Homestead golf course in Funny River. Her teammates looking on are Keith Stewart (left), husband Bob Bush, and daughter Karen Burger. Bush's team - one of the nine competing - wore purple, the Alzheimer's Association's awareness color. Burger, an organizer, said that the tournament had raised $1,900 for Alzheimer's disease research before its conclusion Saturday night.

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