Stauffer-Renderos

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September 14, 2013 - 12:00 AM

Timothy Wallace Stauffer and Violeta Maria Rodriguez Renderos were united in marriage on June 6, 2013, at the Ecumenical Ministries Center on the campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
They met in Violeta’s native El Salvador where Tim served in the U.S. Peace Corps from 2008 to 2010.
Tim met Violeta through her mother, also named Violeta, while on holiday on the island of Meanguera off the Salvadoran coast. Mrs. Renderos invited Tim to bring his students to the Museo de Arte in San Salvador, where she works as its director of education. He did so on the tag end of his time in El Salvador, subsequently meeting her daughter. That encounter resulted in another six-month stint abroad and two years of maintaining a long-distance relationship.
Violeta holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from La Universidad Centroamericana “Jose Simeon Canas,” and a master’s in marketing and communications from the Universidad de Valencia in Spain. She worked in marketing for a TV station in San Salvador for six years up to their marriage. Today she is a student at Johnson County Community College in Kansas City perfecting her English. She volunteers in the marketing department of El Centro, a nonprofit that serves the Hispanic and Latino populations of greater Kansas City.
Tim is a 2003 graduate of Iola High School. He graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in English and a master’s degree in education from New York University. He teaches English at Wyandotte High School.
Parents of the couple are Rolando Rodriguez and Violeta del Carmen Renderos of San Salvador, and Susan Lynn and Dr. Brian Wolfe of Iola, and Clay Stauffer and Barbara Griffin of Holland, Mi.
Aaron Stauffer, brother of the groom, served as best man. Weston Santee was groomsman.
Karen Josefina Flores, childhood friend of the bride, was maid of honor. Louise Krug, sister of the groom, was bridesmaid.
The Rev. Thad Holcombe officiated.
A reception at Pachamamas restaurant in Lawrence followed the ceremony.
The couple resides in Kansas City, Mo.

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