ID: 5432
Date of birth : 1878
Date of death : 1960
Sigurrós Sigurðardóttir was born on April 7, 1878 in Víðidal in Húnavatnssýsla. She died in Gimli on February 17, 1960. She had the last name Vidal in the west.
Unmarried and childless.
Sigurrós was the daughter of Sigurður Jónsson and Kristín Grímsdóttir, who came west in 1887 and settled in the Hnausa settlement in New Iceland. At a young age, she devoted herself to nursing and began studying in 1913 at a hospital in Selkirk (General Hospital). She graduated in 1917 and was then employed by the Manitoba Department of Health and the job involved a lot of traveling between places in the province. She worked there until 1950.