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Lögberg-Heimskringla, föstudagur 25. aprfl, 1980
GLEÐiLEGT SUMAR
ICELANDIA STORES
and
ICELANDIC TRADING
GLEÐILEGT SUMAR
President: NEIL O. BARDAL, Sr.
843 SHERBROOK ST., WINNIPEG
774-7474
Gleðilegt Sumartil íslendinga
nærog fjær
THE ROUND TABLE
800 Pembina Hwy., Winnipeg
PHONE 453-3631
Bestu óskir um GLEÐILEGT SUMAR
til allra íslendinga
N
S. A. THORARINSON
BARRISTER and SOLICITOR
708 Somerset Place, 294 Portage Ave., Winnipeg
Phone 942-7051
ample genealogical notes!
In the meantime, one can
follow the old pattern of
reporting, parenthetically,
on how folks here are
getting along. Minnesota
has been having an ex-
ceptionally good winter
when compared with four-
foot snowdrifts and con-
tinued cold spells such as
marked the winter a year
ago. The temperatures here
have hovered around the
frost mark and above it,
with little snow, and people
in the region express their
pity for folks in areas really
feeling winter’s blasts, both
to the East and the West,
and even in the Southern
states.
Quite a few from Min-
neota, and from other out-
of-town points, attended the
big event on the 29th of
March. Mentioning the
Icelandic community in
Minneota and nearby, it
might be added that there
was a genuine sense of loss
on the death of a pillar of
strength in St. Paul’s
church, where funeral
services were conducted on
the 26th of February for
Sigridur Frost. She would
have been 92 in October,
this fall, had suffered a
stroke and passed away
after a long and fruitful life
career. Sigga, as she was
always called, was a
daughter of Johannes
Halldorsson Frost and his
wife, Boranildur Kjar-
tansdottir, she from
southern Iceland and
Johannes from the north, in
Thingeyjarsysla.
Johannes Halldorsson,
born at Geitafell in Adaldal,
on the 9th of September,
GLEÐILEGT SUMAR
H. J. LAWRÍE LUDLOW
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR
708 Sommerset Place
Phona: 942-0019
Winnipag, Conodo
IU«. 4 09-7 920
GLEÐILEGT SUMAR
GIMLI MOTORS (1976) LTD.
69 Cenlre Streel — Downiown Gimli
A Cross From Posi Office
CHEVROLET — OLDSMOBILE — PONTIAC
BUICK
CHEVROLET and GMC TRUCKS
(Gas and Disel Engines)
JOHN GIESBRECHT and SONS proprielors
Winnipeg Direci 452-8434 — Gimli 642-5133
VIKING EGG DISTIBUTORS
90 Southerland Avenue, Winnipeg
PICK UPACASE
AND GET CRACKING
WHOLESALE — RETAIL
PHONE 942-4361
GLEÐILEGT SUMAR
BLOCK BROS.
McKAGUE SIGMAR
REALTY
Nine branch locations to serve you.
Regional Office — 502-203 Portage Avenue,
Winnipeg
Regional Manager — S. Murray Sigmar
1857, took the family name
Frost shortly after he came
to Milwaukee in 1873; the
English-speaking knew he
had come from Iceland and
started calling him
“Frosty.” He let that do and
simply took the name Frost
as a family name. He was a
brother-in-law of the well
known Benedikt from Aud-
num and thus an uncle of
Unnur Bjarklind — the
renowned poet using the
penname Hulda. Johanhes
was a leading figure in the
pioneer days around
Minneota after he arrived
there in 1878; he died in
1935, Bornhildur before
him, in 1932. Sigridur was
the last of her generation,
preceded in death by a
brother, Charles, in North
Dakota; Ella, wife of George
Benson (Jorgen Bjornsson
Hallasonar from Fossgerdi
in Jokuldal); and Jonina
Magnea, known as Jennie,
County Superintendent of
Schools for years in Lyon
country in southwestern
Minnesota. Surviving are
Ella’s three sons and a
Cont on page 5
GLEÐILEGT SUMAR
Viking Pharmacy
PRESCRIPTIONS
EfRNEST STEFANSON, B.Sc., Pharm.
GARRY FEDORCHUK, B.Sc., Pharm.
Phone: 642-5504
CENTRE ond FOURTH
GIMLI, MANITOBA