Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hardy McCrary of Birmingham announce the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth Thompson McCrary, to Mr. Ben Samuel Godwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Albert Godwin.
The wedding is planned for Feb. 23 at Covenant Presbyterian Church.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mrs. Robert Harold Wise of Dothan and the late Dr. Wise and Mr. John Furniss McCrary of Birmingham and the late Mrs. McCrary.
She is a 2004 graduate of Mountain Brook High School and a 2008 summa cum laude graduate of Auburn University. She received her master’s degree in education, summa cum laude, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. An alumna of Kappa Delta sorority, she is a member of Mortar Board, Sigma Tau Delta, Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. Miss McCrary was presented at the Ball of Roses and is employed as an English teacher at Homewood High School.
The prospective groom is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Samuel Shelley Jr. of Headland and Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Godwin and the late Mrs. Margaret Britt Godwin of Raleigh, N.C.
Mr. Godwin is a 1998 graduate of Enterprise High School and a 2002 graduate of the University of Alabama with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. He received his master’s degree in business administration in 2005 from the University of Alabama. Mr. Godwin is an active member of Shades Mountain Baptist Church, where he teaches fifth grade Sunday school. He is employed as general manager of the SEC Digital Network in Birmingham.
