×
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, Mary & Jeffrey! 

Dr. and Mrs. David Odell Palmer of Dallas, Texas, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Blair Palmer, to Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rick J. Hoffman of Olathe. The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Mr. James Houston Blair of Dallas and the late Mrs. Blair and the late Mr. and Mrs. Presley Odell Palmer. Mary is a graduate of Highland Park High School in Dallas. She earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Southern Methodist University. Mary is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and is careering with Diamond Foods in San Francisco, California.

Her groom-elect is the grandson of Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Anderson of Mission and the late Mr. and Mrs. Clyde V. Hoffman. Jeff is a graduate of Shawnee Mission Northwest High School. He earned a bachelor of business administration in accounting and a master’s degree in professional accounting from the University of Texas. Jeff is a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in business administration at the Haas School of Business at the University of California – Berkeley. Theirs will be an August 3rd wedding at The James Leary Flood Mansion in San Francisco.

Also featured in the May 18th issue of The Independent
Photo Credit:  Margot Landen

mary and jeff engagement 2 036

 

Features

BOTAR Presidents’ Tea

The traditional BOTAR Presidents’ Tea was held on August 23rd at The Kansas City Country Club, led by Mandy and Meg Burditt, and Martha Gail Hughey and Andrea Hughey and…

Bride’s Book – Fowler

Betsy Martin and Stephen Fowler met at the altar of Presidio Chapel in San Francisco, California, to exchange vows on April 27th. Betsy is the daughter of Karen and Gary…

Latina Leadership Summit

The Independent was fortunate enough to call Anna Bazan-Munguia a Rising Star in 2023, and we are thrilled to report that Anna is still hard at work in her community.…

Engagement – Freeman

Mr. and Mrs. John Everett Baxter of Bentonville, Arkansas, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Allison Nicole Baxter, to Paul Jarrel Freeman, Jr., the son of Mr.…