ID: 16485
Born west
Date of birth : 1899
Stefanía Elín Þórey Þórðardóttir Photo: VÍÆ I
Stefanía Elín Þórey Þórðardóttir was born in the Árnes settlement in New Iceland on July 18, 1899. She had the last name Bjarnason in the west.
Unmarried and childless.
Stefanía’s parents were Þórður Bjarnason and Rebekka Stefánsdóttir in the Árnes settlement in Manitoba. They came west in 1887. After high school, she studied nursing at a hospital in Portage la Prairie and graduated there. She worked in nursing at Bethel in Gimli and hospitals in Winnipeg and Saskatchewan.