Margrét Ásgrímsdóttir was born on July 10, 1882 in Swede Prairie Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. She died in Minneapolis on April 25, 1944. She had the last name Westal in the west.
Spouse: July 7, 1906 Sveinn Oddsson b. in Reykjavík on January 14, 1883, d. in Winnipeg on November 29, 1959.
Children: 1. Lúðvík Halldór b. January 28, 1907, d. May 1, 1955 2. Ásgrímur Valdimar b. April 18, 1909, d. May 29, 1917 3. Vilhjálmur Baldur b. January 12, 1911 4. Margrét Elísabet b. January 19, 1915, d. December 23, 1915.
Margrét was the daughter of the couple Ásgrímur Guðmundsson and Guðný Runólfsdóttir who lived in Yellow Medicine County in Minnesota. Sveinn was a printer in Reykjavík and came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1903 and worked as a printer at the Lögberg newspaper in that city. He moved to Minneota, Minnesota and worked in printing on the Vínland and the Minneota Mascot papers. They returned to Winnipeg and printed Lögberg in 1909-1911 but from there went west to Wynyard, Saskatchewan and published the weekly Wynyard Advance for 12 years. He later worked in printing in Wisconsin, Minneapolis, and again in Winnipeg.