ID: 8963
Date of birth : 1892
Guðný Kristrún Sigtryggsdóttir was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on September 18, 1902.
Unmarried and childless.
She was the daughter of Sigtryggur Sigvaldason and Guðný Karítas Friðbjarnardóttir and came to the West with them in 1892. They first lived in the Argyle settlement in Manitoba, but moved in 1903 to the village of Baldur, Manitoba. Sigtryggur died at Betel in Gimli on September 8, 1956 and Guðný Karítas lived with her daughter after that. They settled in Winnipeg the same year he died. Guðný suffered from arthritis from the age of nine and had difficulty walking. It was a blessing to her that she got interested in art at a young age and devoted herself to it. Her works attracted attention in Winnipeg.