ID: 17626
Date of birth : 1883
Place of birth : S. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1975
Helga Þorbjörg Jónsdóttir was born on December 27, 1883 in S. Múlasýsla. She died in Alberta, Canada in 1975.
Spouse: July 28, 1914 Ólafur Tryggvi Jónsson b. May 12, 1882 in the Hallson Settlement in N. Dakota, d. in Alberta on June 7, 1937.
Childless.
Helga came west to Manitoba in 1912. Ólafur grew up in the home of his parents, Jón Pétursson and Ingunn Ólafsdóttir, in the Hallson Settlement in N. Dakota. He moved with them to Alberta, Canada in 1889. He attended school in Winnipeg and was well-written and poetic. He became the editor of the Heimskringla newspaper from 1917 to 1919, then moved to Minneapolis and lived there for several years, working as a house painter. They later moved to Alberta.