Couple celebrates love by giving gift of life

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Kentwood couple celebrated their love on Valentine's Day by giving blood.

You can find Michael and Ruth Bush at theGrand Rapids Versiti Blood Centeron Fuller Avenue, where they go to donate blood or platelets, every two weeks. They started donating in the early 1980s. Since then, they have each given blood over 190 times and donated close to 24 gallons each.

"With that, they have probably saved over a thousand lives together," said Mara Holzgen, supervisor of Contact Center at Versiti Blood Centers of Michigan.

"I would like to be the woman who has given the most. We did some research and I think 36 is the top right now, so I have a little ways to go," Ruth Bush said.

The couple said their faith drives their giving.

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