Nila Robertson McNair was born to parents Mitchell Robertson and Ellice Thompson Robertson on their remote Sycamore Creek homestead about 50 miles west of Silver City, New Mexico, on Feb. 14, 1936.
Her parents migrated to Deming, New Mexico, shortly after World War II, then on to the Ireland area in the late 1940s. They soon moved to a farm near Carlton, where she finished her school years.
After a …
