Luzmoor, Melo announce upcoming marriage

Milena Andrea Melo and Mark Phillip Luzmoor, together with their parents David and Mireya Melo and Phillip and Kathy Luzmoor, recently announced their engagement and upcoming marriage, which will take place on June 24, 2017, on the beach in South Padre Island, Texas.

Melo is a 2006 graduate of Veterans Memorial High School in Mission, Texas, University of Texas-Pan American 2009 graduate with bachelor of science degree in biology, a 2011 graduate master of arts in interdisciplinary studies and a 2017 graduate University of Texas at San Antonio graduate with a Ph.D in anthropology. Melo has been offered an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Latino Studies at the School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, N.M. to begin Sept. 2017.  She will follow as an assistant professor of anthropology at Mississippi State College in Starkville, Miss., beginning August 2018.

Luzmoor is a 2005 graduate of Green River High School, a 2007 graduate of Western Wyoming Community College, a 2009 University of Wyoming graduate with a bachelor of arts in history and the a 2013 University of Texas-San Antonio graduate with a master of arts in archeology. He is currently a professional archeologist for Raba Kistner, Inc. in San Antonio, Texas.

The couple met in 2012 through mutual UTSA graduate school friends. The two will make their next home in Santa Fe, N.M., along with their three fur babies, Spunky, Chip and Chloe.