Karl B. Guðjónsson Photo VÍÆ III
Rose Hedges Photo VÍÆ III
Karl Baldvin Guðjónsson was born in Winnipeg February , 1896. Karl B. Thorkelson vestra.
Spouse: July 7, 1928 Rose Hedges b. in London, Englandi October 17, 1907, d. in Virden, Manitoba in 1947.
Cildren:: 1. Grahame Walter Karl b in Winnipeg December 28, 1929 2. Shirley L. Gerrand b. in Winnipeg November 8, 1931 3. Brian b. in Morden, Manitoba November 16, 1935.
Karl was the son of Guðjón Þorkelsson and Lilja S. Jónsdóttir and grew up in Marshland, Manitoba at his parents home. He was the first student admitted to the new Jón Bjarnason School in Winnipeg in 1913. He studied there until 1916 and in the fall of that year he attended Wesley College and graduated in 1917. He worked as farmhand in the rural community around Langruth until 1924, when he began studies at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, graduating in the spring of 1926. In the fall he attended Manitoba Normal School from where he graduated a year later. He completed his B.A and obtained a Teacher´s Certificate in 1930. He was hired as principal at the Arborg Middle School in 1927-1930 and principal at the Morden Collegiate Institute 1930-1959.
Karl traveling in rural Manitoba Photo Ld