Reverend Guðmundur Árnason and Sigríður Einarsdóttir Photo: FSÁAB
Guðmundur Árnason was born in Mýrasýsla on April 4, 1880. He died in Lundar, Manitoba on February 24, 1943.
Spouse: August 12, 1909 in Cambridge, England, Sigríður Einarsdóttir b. in Borgarfjarðarsýsla on September 16, 1884, d. at Betel in Gimli in 1974.
Children: 1. Einar b. June 7, 1910 in Winnipeg 2. Helga b. December 16, 1912 3. Hrefna b. January 16, 1915, d. October 30, 1978.
Guðmundur moved to Manitoba in 1901 and entered a trade school in Winnipeg, but then turned to theology. He studied at the seminary in Meadville, Pennsylvania from 1904-1908. He received a grant for postgraduate studies and spent a year in Germany. He was employed as a priest in Winnipeg by the Icelandic Unitarian congregation from 1909 to 1915. He went to university in Chicago and taught in various parts of Manitoba after graduation. He settled in Oak Point south of Lundar and started fishing there in 1920 and worked there until 1933. He was appointed pastor of the Unitarian congregation in Lundar in 1928 and served them and others around Lake Manitoba for the rest of his life. They settled in Lundar in 1933. He was said to be well-mannered, a good speaker and an excellent writer.