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.