Séra Jónas A Sigurðsson Photo: VÍÆ3
Stefanía Ólafsdóttir Photo: VÍÆ3
Jónas Ari Sigurðsson was born in Húnavatnssýsla on May 6, 1865. He died in Winnipeg, Manitoba on May 10, 1933.
Spouse: 1) 1887 Oddrún Frímannsdóttir b. in Húnavatnssýsla, September 3, 1857, d. in San Francisco on January 17, 1941. They divorced. 2) 1903 Stefanía Ólafsdóttir b February 14, 1877 in Árnessýsla, d. September 19, 1959.
Children: With Oddrún: 1. Frímann Jónas 2. Torfi b. in Pembina, N.D. on January 20, 1891, d. Everett, Washington on April 15, 1925 3. Haraldur b. in Akra, N. Dakota on November 21, 1899. With Stefanía: 1. Björn Theodore b. in Seattle January 29, 1907, d. August 2, 1960 2. Jón Ó. S. b. in Seattle on November 1, 1911, d. February 12, 1961 3. Elín Guðrún b. in Seattle August 15, 1914.
Jónas came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887 and moved the same year to Hamilton, N. Dakota. He moved east from there to the village of Pembina but then chose to study theology at the newly established seminary in Chicago and graduated from there in 1893. He was ordained a pastor the same year and served Icelandic congregations in N. Dakota until 1901. He then moved west to Seattle, Washington where he served an Icelandic congregation before received a call from the Konkordía congregation in Saskatchewan in 1918. He served there until 1927, when he became pastor of the Icelandic congregation in Selkirk, Manitoba, where he lived until his death.