Mr. and Mrs. Barry Thomas Trader of Columbia, Missouri, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Amy Elizabeth Trader, to David Rall Bradley III, the son of Mr. and Mrs. David Rall Bradley, Jr. of Saint Joseph, Missouri. The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Mrs. Robert Stanley Lemon of Wildwood, Missouri, and the late Mr. Lemon, and Mrs. Edward Lee Trader of Independence, Missouri, and the late Mr. Trader. Amy is a graduate of Rock Bridge High School in Columbia. She earned a bachelor of science degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Missouri–Columbia. Amy received a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia College. A member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, she is employed with CONMED Corporation in Kansas City, Missouri. 

Her groom-elect is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Russell Bocell and the late Mr. and Mrs. David Rall Bradley. Rall is a graduate of The Pembroke Hill School. He was a member of the floor committee and an escort for the 2006 Jewel Ball. Rall earned both a bachelor of science degree in business administration and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Missouri–Columbia. A member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, he was a BOTAR escort in 2017. Rall is employed with the News-Press & Gazette Company in Saint Joseph. Theirs will be an October 14th wedding at Country Club Christian Church in Kansas City.   

Featured in the April 15, 2023 issue of The Independent.
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