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Margaret Wickersham

Project StaffLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffSpouse to Manhattan Project Worker
Margaret Wickersham Listen to Margaret Wickersham’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Margaret “Marge” (Hibner) Wickersham grew up in the Fairview area of Española, NM.

During the Manhattan Project, she commuted by bus from Española to Los Alamos, where she worked as a maid and as a cashier in the commissary. At Los Alamos, she met and married her husband John Wickersham.

After the war, the Wickershams settled in Española, where they raised five children.

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