From left: Aðalheiður, Kristín, Þuríður, and Ásgeir in the Shoal Lake Settlement. Photo: WtW
Þuríður Dagfríður Guðbrandsdóttir was born on November 24, 1896. She had the names Þóra Jorundson and Thora Lansing in the west.
Spouse: Nils Lansing, an American.
Children: Information is missing.
Þuríður came west in 1903 with her parents, Guðbrandur Jörundsson and Jóhanna Ásgeirsdóttir, and siblings. The family settled in the Shoal Lake Settlement (Grunnavatnsbyggð) in Manitoba. Þuríður attended school there, but at a young age she moved to Winnipeg and learned how to sew clothes. She moved to Los Angeles in 1929 with her sister, Adelaide. Þuríður’s husband was also in the clothing industry and they worked together in the city for some years. Lögberg in Winnipeg reports that on April 30, 1953, Jón Emil Guðjónsson from Kýrunnarstaðir in Dalasýsla and the director of Bókaútgáfa Menningarsjóður had been on a trip to Los Angeles and stayed with his aunt Thora Lansing and her husband.