Albertína Guðrún Jónsdóttir Photo: VÍÆ IV
Albertína Guðrún Jónsdóttir was born in Winnipeg on April 23, 1909. She had the last name Olafsson before marriage.
Spouse: June 24, 1932 Halldór Vilbert Tryggvason b. in Pembina, N. Dakota on April 23, 1901. He had the last name Johnson in the west.
Children: John Theodore b.in Leslie, Saskatchewan on February 6, 1938, d. in Blaine, Washington on January 7, 1947.
Albertína was the daughter of Jón Ólafsson, a merchant in Leslie in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð), and his wife Sigríður Jónsdóttir. She attended school in Leslie but her singing talent was revealed early on. She sang, among other things in the women’s choir founded by Hjörtur Lárusson in Minneapolis. She was in a church choir wherever she lived, e.g. in Blaine. Halldór grew up in the home of his parents, Tryggvi Jónsson and Rósa I. Jónsdóttir, early settlers in Pembina. At a young age he went west to Saskatchewan where he worked as an agricultural laborer. Moved from there to Minnesota and worked first for a farmers association and later for Ford Motor Co, in St. Paul. Later he moved to Blaine, Washington where he set up a shoemaking shop.