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Louis and Eileen Petrillo, Laflin, are pleased to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Cara Elizabeth, to Paul Richard Donahue III, son of Paul Donahue II, Harleysville, Pennsylvania, and Margriet Donahue, Collingdale, Pennsylvania.
Cara is the granddaughter of the late Louis and Margaret Petrillo, Wilkes-Barre, and the late John C. and Elizabeth Grady McNamara, Pittston.
Paul is the grandson of the late Paul and Marie Donahue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the late Rudy and Carla Carson, Dehague, Holland.
The bride-to-be is a 2001 graduate of Bishop Hoban High School. She earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary and special education in 2005 from St. Joseph’s University. She is currently completing her master’s degree in special education with a concentration in autism from Drexel University. Cara is employed as a special education teacher and special education liaison by the School District of Philadelphia.
The prospective groom is a 2001 graduate of Cardinal O’Hara High School. He earned his bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from West Chester University in 2006. Paul is employed as an account manager for Abbott Point of Care.
The couple will exchange vows on May 9, 2015, at Our Mother of Good Counsel, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. An evening cocktail hour and reception will follow at Overbrook Golf Club, Villanova, Pennsylvania.