Geir Ólafsson Photo: VÍÆ I
Jónína Katrín Timoteusardóttir Photo: VÍÆ I
Geir Ólafsson was born in Winnipeg on September 28, 1901. He died there on April 2, 1959. He had the last name Thorgeirson in the west.
Spouse: September 23, 1939 Jónína Katrín Tímóteusardóttir b. in the Brown settlement in Manitoba on January 30, 1902. She took the last name Gudmundson with her first husband.
Childless
Geir was the son of Ólafur Þorgeirsson, a print shop owner in Winnipeg and Jakobína Guðrún Jakobsdóttir. Geir grew up in the city and finished high school there. He studied engineering at the University of Manitoba 1920-1923. He worked on railway construction in Western Canada, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Later he worked for electric utilities in Eastern Canada. He was hired to design a mansion in Minneapolis. Later he returned to his home pastures and worked in his father’s printing company, Thorgeirson Company, which he later owned together with his brother Ólaf. Jónína was the daughter of Timoteus Guðmundsson and Þorbjörg Hallgrímsdóttir.