Couple announces engagement
Megan Chanel Helmstead and Jason Alan Gregory of Lenexa announce their engagement.
Steven and Stacie Smith of Marion, Ed and Kelly Helmstead of Phoenix, Ariz., and Michael and Jeanette Gregory of Herington are parents of the couple.
The bride-elect is a 2003 graduate of Marion High School and a 2008 graduate of Kansas State University. She is employed by JC Penney.
Her fiancé graduated from Herington High School in 2002 and Kansas State University in 2008. He is a student at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, and plans to graduate in 2013. He is a lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
A wedding is planned Sept. 8, 2012, in Valley Center.