Halldór Vilbert Tryggvason Photo: VÍÆ IV
Halldór Vilbert Tryggvason was born in Pembina, N. Dakota on April 23, 1901. He had the last name Johnson in the west.
Spouse: June 24, 1932 Albertína Guðrún Jónsdóttir b. in Winnipeg on April 23, 1909. She had the last name Olafsson before marriage.
Children: John Theodore b. in Leslie, Saskatchewan on February 6, 1938, d. in Blaine, Washington on January 7, 1947.
Halldór grew up in the home of his parents, Tryggvi Jónsson and Rósa I. Jónsdóttir, early settlers in Pembina. At a young age he went west to Saskatchewan where he worked as a farm hand. He moved from there to Minnesota and worked first for a farmers association and later for Ford Motor Co. in St. Paul. Later he moved to Blaine, Washington where he set up a shoemaking shop. Albertína was the daughter of Jón Ólafsson, a merchant in Leslie in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð), and his wife Sigríður Jónsdóttir.