Bertha Marie Wilkins Desjarlais, age 34, started her journey home on October 27, 2016.
Bertha Marie was born on September 9, 1982 in Wolf Point, she was a 1999 graduate of Wolf Point High School. She was a loving, caring daughter of Irene Wilkins, and Brent Wilkins, a loving mother to 3 daughters, Lenaya, Alyssa, and Eden, and a friend and wife to Patrick. Bertha had a gift to gab, she enjoyed visiting with anyone who would take a few minutes to just stop from their busy daily schedules and visit her about anything and everything that would come up.
In 2002 she met her very best friend, Patrick Desjarlais, from this friendship she eventually married Patrick on August 19, 2015.
She is survived by her husband, Patrick Desjarlais; 3 daughters, Lenaya, Alyssa, and 6 month old baby girl, Edan Paulette; father, Brent (Kathy) Wilkins of Wolf Point; mother, Irene Wilkins of Poplar; sister, Lisa Kirk of Portland, Oregon; brother, Derek McNabb; sister, Michelle McNabb of Wolf Point; aunts, Dajette Courchene from Plentywood, MT, Madiline Moran of Fort Kipp, Vernita Buckles, Leta Atkinson, Janice White Eagle, Trivian Grainger, and Carol Bemer; uncles, Clyde Perry, Victor Perry, and Adrian Perry, George Sanders, George, Eder, Bernard Eder, and Kevin Hendrickson all of Fort Kipp and Poplar; father-in-law, Les Olson; mother-in-law, Paulette Olson; and extended families, White Eagles, Black Dogs, White Bears, Young Bears, Four Bears, Christians, Eders, and Firsts.
She was preceded in death by her brother, Jason; grandparents, Frank and Lavina Perry; grandmother, Patricia Ewana Chrstina Hughs; aunts, Gilda Stevans, and Ole Hible.