Obituary: Bea Wilkinson Sept. 16, 1918 – April 10, 2021
Bertha (Metz) Wilkinson died on April 10, 2021, in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
She was known as Nai Nai or Mum to her family and Bea to her friends. She lived the past 21 years in Los Alamos near, and then with, her son and daughter-in-law, Rich and Mary Pat Kraemer.
But her journey to Los Alamos was far from ordinary. She was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, on a remote farm so rural her birth certificate lists her birthplace as “Sec.3, Tp23, Rge 24, W2nd.” Her Mother died when Bea was 12, and as the oldest child she became “mother” to her 4 siblings.