Mr. Eldridge Bernard Stewart of Camden announces the engagement and forthcoming marriage of his daughter, Valerie Kay Stewart, to Justin Wayne Nelson.

Miss Stewart is the daughter of the late Pamela Kaye Stewart. Mr. Nelson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Wayne Nelson of Clanton.

The future bride is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Earl Mozingo of Prattville, and Mrs. Mary Rush Stewart and the late Thomas Bernard Stewart of Clanton.

She is a graduate of Wilcox Academy and is currently a senior at the University of Alabama majoring in interior design. She is employed by the college with the National Alumni Association and was the reigning Miss University of Alabama for 2011.

Mr. Nelson is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Childress and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Morell Nelson of Thorsby

He is a graduate of Chilton County High School and Huntingdon College with a degree in communications.He is pursuing a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and is presently employed as associate and youth pastor of Taylorville Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa.

The couple will unite in marriage on May 26, 2012, at Camden Baptist Church in Camden with the reception following at Gaines Ridge Dinner Club.