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This wedding dress made from WWII-era parachute launched local couple’s 60-year marriage
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RIGBY – A dress on display at the Museum of Idaho’s new “Idaho Takes Flight” exhibit is a historic remnant of an unlikely love story that began during World War II.
It’s a wedding dress made from a parachute. The gown belonged to Velma Byrne, a Massachusetts nurse who met and fell in love with Clancy Byrne of Rexburg while he was under her care.
The couple were married in a small chapel on an Army Air Force base in war-ravaged Italy. When the war ended, the couple moved to Idaho, eventually settling in Rigby. They raised five children together and enjoyed 60 years of marriage before Velma passed away in 2005. Clancy lived to be 104 before he died in 2018.
The couple’s second-youngest child, Mike, is responsible for the dress being in the museum. In a conversation with EastIdahoNews.com, he says the parachute was a gift to his mom from one of her patients. It’s a fancy dress, under the circumstances, he says, and a unique way for a love story to begin.
“You look at it now and it’s a little bit faded, but not too bad,” Mike says. “This happened a few other times during the war, but it’s rare. There’s only a few (parachute dresses) that exist.”
WATCH OUR CONVERSATION WITH MIKE IN THE VIDEO ABOVE.
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