Lincoln County NeArchives Photo Person.....Bystrom, Irene Morell Neville "Mansion Baby" January 11, 1953
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Source:             Lincoln Sunday Journal And Star Jan 11, 1953 Pg 6-C
Name:               Irene Morell Neville "Mansion Baby" Bystrom

Date Of Photograph: January 11, 1953
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      Mansion Baby Identified

It was a warm, muggy day. Gov. Morell Keith Neville had 
promised that he would attend the blue rock shooting
tournament taking place in Omaha... and as a Governor
must neither satisfy his own whims to relax and try to
find some cool comfort on the wide porches of the 
Executive Mansion...nor disappoint his expectant 
constituents, he spent July 1, 1918 in Omaha.
   Little did that gentleman think when he hurried home
in answer to a "come quick" summons, that his brand
new daughter could claim the honor almost 35 years
later, of being the only child ever born in the 
Governor's Mansion. Irene Morell Neville Bystrom had
become the the "Mansion Baby"... and now the wife of
Roy D. Bystrom of Kelso, Wash., she has three babies
of her own. Of course Patricia Bystrom, 7, would
scarcely consider herself a baby!... but young Keith
Bystrom, 2, and Billy, 1, may not object too much to
be placed in such a category.
   Among the baby's first visitors were the late Gen.
John J. Pershing, his 11-year-old son, Warren, (who
boy-fashion probably took little or no notice of the
small pink and white bundle that grown-ups were fondly
calling Irene) and Miss Pershing, still a resident of
Lincoln.
   The first date made for Irene's christening had to be
postponed. Lincoln churches were closed--a preventive
measure against the spread of the flu epidemic. However,
she was later christened in Holy Trinity Episcopal Church.
Her godparents were Mr. Neville's cousins, Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Neville of Omaha, and his sister and brother-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Reynolds of North Platte.
   Other Neville children are Mrs. Fred Sieman (Mary Nelson),
Mrs. W. D. Newberry (Frances Elizabeth), and Mrs. Don  
Robertson (Virginia Neill), all of North Platte.
   Irene was married to Roy D. Bystrom of Kelso, Wash., 
on July 25, 1942, while he was stationed in Las Vegas 
during the war. His mother is Mrs. Gust Sutherland of
Longview, Wash. Her maid of honor was Miss Jean Fetter
of North Platte, who is now Mrs. Leonard Greenhaw of
Fayetteville, Ark.
   It is quite possible that Irene Morell Neville Bystrom
will continue to hold the title of "Mansion Baby."

Photo 1:
   The northeast corner bedroom of the Executive Mansion,
as it is today, with a picture on the wall of Irene Neville
Bystrom during her undergraduate days at the University of
Nebraska.

Photo 2:
   A very young Irene Neville posed for her picture. The
sterling silver spoon shown was a gift on the occasion
of the baby's christening, engraved with a picture of the
former capitol, and inscribed, "Lincoln, Neb."

Photo 3:
   Mrs. Roy D. Bystrom (Irene Morell Neville) with her 
children {from left} Keith, Patricia and Billy.

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