Stephen and Terri Ryan of Gainesville announce the engagement of their daughter Emily Ann Ryan to Dallas James Loewen, son of Jim and Rebecca Loewen of Gainesville.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of the late Walter and Sara Twiggs Ryan and the late Jacques and Francis Bates Tribble.
She is a 2004 graduate of North Hall High School in Gainesville. She plans to graduate in 2008 from Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville with a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education.
The groom-elect is the grandson of Henry and Edna Loewen of Stienbach, Manitoba, Canada, and Jim and Darlene Curtis of Flowery Branch.
He is a 2002 graduate of Carachipamapa Christian School in Cochabamba, Bolivia, South America. He graduated in 2006 from Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville with a bachelor’s degree in business management and international business. He is employed as a flight instructor with Falcon Aviation Academy in Atlanta.
The couple plans an open-church wedding for 3 p.m. on May 31, 2008, at First United Methodist Church in Gainesville.