×
Subscribe

Subscribe Today

Save almost 50% off the newsstand price!

In addition to receiving 26 issues of The Independent Kansas City’s Journal of Society, your subscription will include our annual publication, the Charitable Events Calendar and a subscription to our e-newsletter, The Insider.

Questions about your current subscription? Contact Laura Gabriel at 816-471-2800.

Congratulations, Hadley & Michael!

Mrs. William Appleton Burnham, Jr., of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is pleased to announce the engagement of her daughter, Hadley Winslow Burnham, to Michael Lewis Reintjes, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert James Reintjes, Jr., of Mission Hills, Kansas. The bride-to-be is also the daughter of the late Mr. William Appleton Burnham, Jr. Hadley is the granddaughter of Mr. William Henry Wheeler, Jr., of Duxbury, and the late Mrs. Wheeler, and the late Mr. and Mrs. William Appleton Burnham, Sr. She is a graduate of Duxbury High School. Hadley earned a bachelor of arts degree in sociology from Washington College. A member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, she is self-employed in Mission Hills, Kansas.

Her groom-elect is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Robert James Reintjes, Sr., of Mission Hills, Kansas, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Gifford Alley, Sr. Michael is a graduate of Rockhurst High School. He was a member of the Jewel Ball floor committee as well as an escort in 2010. Michael earned a bachelor of arts degree in corporate communications from Elizabethtown College. He is employed with ERT in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The couple is planning a late fall wedding at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Redemptorist Catholic Church in Kansas City, Missouri.

Also featured in the September 18, 2021 issue of The Independent
Photo Credit: Heather Brulez

Features

Congratulations, Jillian & James!

Jillian Grier Campbell and James Henry Helzberg were united in matrimony on September 30th at The Kansas City Country Club in Mission Hills, Kansas. The bride is the daughter of…

Congratulations, Allie & Andrew!

Allie Lynn Dillingham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Edwards Dillingham of Kansas City, is engaged to be married to Andrew Thomas Hipp on June 22nd at Union Station Kansas…

Congratulations, Nicole & John!

Dr. Nicole Alexandra Hefner and John Kennedy Goodwin, Jr. will meet at the altar of St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church in Chicago, Illinois, this August to exchange vows. The bride-to-be…

Crib Note – Lillian Blair Snively

And then there were three – three girls, that is – for Amy and Matt Snively of Our Town! Lillian Blair Snively joined the family on December 15th, weighing six…