Sean and Kellie Ruane of Howland are announcing the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Michaela Nicole, to John James Graham, son of James and Claudia Graham of Cortland.

Miss Ruane is a 2010 graduate of Howland High School and received a bachelor’s degree in speech pathology and audiology from Kent State University in 2014. She graduated from Cleveland State University in 2016 with a master’s degree in psychology, and a specialty in school psychology in 2017. Miss Ruane is employed as a school psychologist with the Mahoning County Educational Service Center.

Dr. Graham graduated valedictorian in 2006 from Lakeview High School. He graduated summa cum laude in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in natural sciences with a minor in chemistry from the University of Akron. He completed medical school at North East Ohio Medical University, and his internal medicine residency at University Hospital in Cleveland. Dr. Graham has been practicing hematology / oncology at the Blood and Cancer Center in Canfield.

Plans are being formulated and invitations will be issued for a July 2021 wedding ceremony to be held in Youngstown.