Mr. and Mrs. Clay McConnell, Ms. Shondell Vancleave and Mr. Mike McConnell, all of Yazoo City, announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Lakken Nicole McConnell, to Austin Rowland Bearden, son of Ms. Kelli Rowland Bearden of Inverness, Mr. Ritchie Bearden of Isola and Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mitchell of Clarksdale.