Jón Frímann Jónsson and Ásrún Jónsdóttir Photo: RbQ
Jón Frímann Jónsson was born in Pembina, N. Dakota on October 24, 1884. He died in Blaine, Washington on August 14, 1952. He had the name John F. Johnson in the west.
Spouse: December 15, 1910 Ásrún Jónsdóttir b. in Bárðardalur in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on April 20, 1893, d. 1981 in Blaine.
Children: 1.Baldur Theodore b. October 12, 1911 2. Anna Kristjana b. July 22, 1914 3. Carl Franklin b. March 18, 1919.
Ásrún came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba with her father, Jón Jónsson from Mýri in Bárðardalur, in 1903 and moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1906. Jón, the son of Jón Jónsson from Munkaþverá and Guðný Eiríksdóttir, lived in his father’s house until 1904, but he then moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan as did his father. He opened a store in Wynyard and ran it for a number of years. They moved to Vancouver in 1911 and from there south to Blaine, Washington a year later.