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Aware Affair 2025

2025 AWARE Affair

A Night Fighting Alzheimer’s

AWARE Affair 2025: Boots Buckles & Brain Health was a tremendous success! Thank you to our donors and volunteers for your leadership in our efforts to rise above Alzheimer's and dementia, together!

Please mark your calendars now for next year - Saturday, April 11, 2026 - see ya'll there!

A NIGHT FIGHTING ALZHEIMER’S  |  SUPPORTING CARE PARTNERS

Cocktails & Silent Auction  |  Brain Games  |  Seated Buffet Dinner  |  Live Auction & Paddle Raise  |  Line Dancing and more!

ENTERTAINMENT BY
Breckenridge Band

HONORING
Venise Stuart
2025 Founders Spirit Award
and
Karisti Julia
2025 Amy Osler Spirit of Education Leadership Award

Complimentary Valet  |  Western Cocktail Attire - Boots & Jeans

Make a Donation
purple jacket.

 We are grateful for the leadership of so many who made AWARE Affair 2025 so successful!

HONORARY CHAIRS EMERITI

Sally and Forrest Hoglund
Lee Roy and Biddie Jordan
Venise and Larry Stuart
Todd Terry and Amy Terry Kriegel honoring the legacy of their mother, Ellen Terry

2025 HONORARY CHAIRS

Bo and Jeff Parker

2025 EVENT CHAIR

David McDavid, Jr.

2025 ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Stacey Jones Angel
Sharon Ballew
Mari Epperson
Jolie Humphrey
Karen Koop
Ann McKinley

2025 UNDERWRITING CHAIRS

Melinda Emmons
LuAnne Hobbs

2025 UNDERWRITING COMMITTEE

Tamara O’Connor
Kim Rhone
Christie Schmitt

2025 LIVE AUCTION CHAIRS

Stephanie Bray
Lacie Crow
Becky Mills

2025 HOST COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Kim Barnes
Cindy Marshall

2025 HOST COMMITTEE

Stacey Jones Angel
Sharon and Maurice Ballew
Marcia and Nick Beare
Patrice and Michael Beck
Laura and Dan Boeckman
Karen and Denis Boulle
Stephanie and Bennie Bray
Ashley and Brian K. Brown
Janet and Jack Broyles
Lori and Bill Bush
Karen and Mark Carney
Gail Plummer and John Cattaneo
Krystle and Chad Craycraft
Jan and Tom Daulton
Lisa Shardon and Angelo DeFilippo
Judy Diamond
Melinda and David Emmons
Mari and Don Epperson
Shannon and Todd Henderson
LuAnne and Rankin Hobbs
Jolie and Bart Humphrey
Elizabeth and Syd Hurley
Karisti and Luis Julia
Josey and Craig Kennington
Karen and Keith Koop
Libby & Murray McCabe
Ann and Mike McKinley
Becky and Marshall Mills
Mark Moussa
Joanne Mulcahy
Pamela and Len Musgrove
Susan and Richard Myers
Tamara and Tim O'Connor
Anne and Blair Oden
Regina Bruce and John Pickett
Pam and Steven Pluss
Mere and Scott Powell
Mary and Tim Rooney
Christie and Gregg Schmitt
Shannon and Craig Stamm
Venise and Larry Stuart
Janet and Ron Stukalin
Denice and Dale Swift
Barbara C. and Robert P. Sypult
Susan Lee Tacito
Cindy Marshall and Duc Tran
Lisa and Brad Walker
Catherine Weber
Donna and Herb Weitzman
Sheryl and Gary Wood
Lacey Young

2025 AWARE PRESIDENT

Karen Koop

AWARE FOUNDING MEMBERS

Ruth Sharp Altshuler*
Cyndy Hudgins
Nancy Nelson*
Evelyn Ponder
Billie Leigh Rippey*
Anita Sampels

*deceased

THANK YOU TO OUR 2025 SPONSORS

TRAILBLAZER PRESENTING SPONSOR
Anne Davidson

VIP RECEPTION
Alice and Curt Farmer

BOLO
Mary and Tim Rooney

BUCKLE
Lee Roy and Biddie Jordan
Venise and Larry Stuart

PATRON PARTY
Jolie and Bart Humphrey

VALET
Barb and Mike Tonti

ENTERTAINMENT
Stacey Jones Angel

BRAIN GAMES

GRANT EDUCATION PRESENTATION

PADDLE RAISE
Ann and Mike McKinley

PHOTO EXPERIENCE

TEXAS TWO STEP
Sally and Mark Banta
Josey and Craig Kennington
Karen and Keith Koop
Pamela and Steven Pluss
For Love and Art

COWBOY CHACHA
Anonymous
Susan and Jim Baldwin
Whitney and Jay Grogan
Catherine D. Weber
CiCi and Giffen Weinmann

MEDIA

 

AWARE AFFAIR IN THE NEWS

Announcing AWARE Affair 2025: Boots, Buckles & Brain Health presented by Anne Davidson
February 11, 2025 | Philanthropy Lifestyles

AWARE Celebrates 35 Years Empowering North Texas to Rise Above The Challenges of Alzheimer’s
Holiday 2024 | The Savvy Life

MySweetWishList: AWARE Dallas
December 18, 2024 | MySweetCharity

2025 AWARE Affair Will Be Boot Scooting At Gilley’s With Cowboy Chic Highlighted By Purple Coats
November 27, 2024 | MySweetCharity

Denim Will Rule 2024 AWARE Affair's "Boots, Buckles and Brain Health" To Kick Down Alzheimer's
March 5, 2024 | My Sweet Charity

Stephanie Bray And Jolie Humphrey To Be Honored With Awards At 2023 AWARE Affair
February 14, 2023 | My Sweet Charity

JUST IN: 2023 AWARE Affair To “Artfully” Raise Funds For 19 Beneficiaries Fighting Alzheimer’s
December 22, 2022 | My Sweet Charity

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