Lögberg-Heimskringla - 16.03.2001, Blaðsíða 7

Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur 16. mars 2001 • 7
A note to our readers: “íslensk kona: Portrait ofÁsdís Anderson ” will be retuming in our travel issue. Due to space constraints, we will be running tlie biography in larger monthly
instalments. This week we introduce a new section, “Yggdrasill—The Tree ofLife, ” which will spotlight lives lived and milestones iii the lives of Icelandic North Americans.
Information from Donna Barkley
and Oliver F. Lindal
Morden, MB
ON JULY 23 OVER 100 FRIENDS,
neighbors and relatives crowd-
ed the basement of the Royal
Canadian Legion in Morden to cele-
brate George Nicklin’s hundredth birth-
day. When asked for the recipe for
being so spi-y and healthy at the age of
100, his prompt reply was, “I never got
mairied.”
George’s parents were Andrew and
Wilhelmina Nicklin. Bom in Crystal
City on July 23 1900, he was the fourth
child in a family of eleven children.
Wilhelmina died in the 1918 flu epi-
demic, when some of the children were
quite young. Andrew could not look
after all the children as he had to work
hard to provide for the family, so some
of the younger ones went to live with
others. A lot of generous people shared
what little they had with others less for-
tunate, through no fault of their own. As
a child around the age of nine George
went to live with a family north of
Morden. He was to go to school and
George Nicklin 100 ára
George Nicklin 100 years old
help watch their
young son. He
never went to
school while he
was there. He came
back to Morden,
then went out to
the 1-6 district.
He was hospi-
talized in 1918
with the flu. He
worked for diflfer-
ent farmers in the
1-6 district, and
also rented land
and farmed. He
remembers loading
grain in the wagon
bcx in the evening,
and starting out
with a team of
horses before the sun was up. They
were going through Kasket hauling
wheat to Walhalla just across the border
in North Dakota.
Johnny Mike
Gislason drove
one team, and
George followed.
After unloading
they would go
over to the restau-
rant, where there
was a löng table
with food set on
it. You could eat
all you wanted for
$1.00. At another
time he worked
for Manitoba
Hydro setting
poles throughout
the Dauphin area.
After Hydro he
went back to the
1-6 area.
He rnoved to Mowbray in the 1950s
where he lived with his brother Helgi
(Bill) and his wife Freda and their fam-
ily of five, so life was never dull. He
rented the farm kitty comer from Bill so
they always worked together. They had
a very special relationship, as Bill was
very fast and George very careful, so
they go along really well. He took his
nephews for many walks where they
remember him showing them little
fawns and lovely fields of wild flowers.
He also took them along when he went
for the cows, and at the age of three
Brian could not convince him that his
leg was broken (hoping he would carry
him.) In 1980 he moved to Darlingford
with Bill and Freda. Later he moved to
Tabor Home units, where he still resides
and does all his own work.
Of his siblings, Joseph died in
World War I (Army), John served in the
Army in World War I, James and Bill
served in World War II. Andy was
adopted by John and Margrét Gislason.
Lennie was adopted by Gísli and Freyja
Olafson. Emma (Ms. Walter) and
George were adopted by Gusta
Gislason. Pearl married Tome
Sorenson, and Jean, Bob Scott. Of the
eleven, only three are alive today.
A long and vigorous life
ASI EYFORD
Octqber 22, 1909-December 31, 2000
ASI WAS BORN IN REDDING,
Washington, the youngest of
twelve children bom to Jurindur
Eyford and Anna Jónsdóttir. His mother
and father both came from the Eyfjörður
River area in Iceland, taking the sur-
name “Eyford” on entering Canada. Asi
spent the first half of his life in
Edmonton and northern Alberta. The
remainder was spent in BC, ten years of
this in Ucluelet. For most of his life, he
was involved in the fishing business.
Asi was a very strong man and a
wrestler in his youth, good enough that
he was asked to go professional, which
he declined. Also, the family was very
musical, to the point where he, his sec-
ond wife and four children had a
recording contract and entertained for a
number of years as a family musical
group.
Asi is survived by seven children,
three sons and by his first wife, Elin
Ogmundsson: Oswald (Sonny); Don;
Bob; and four children by his second
wife Marjorie Middagh: Marjorie,
Hume, Darlene, Sandra. There are
twenty-two grandchildren and ten
great-grandchildren.
Thor Guttormson,
the gentleman farmer
THOR GUTTORMSON
January 26, 1928-December 11, 2000
Thor was born in Baldur, MB the
eldest child of Dr. Petur B. and
Salin Guttormson. He was the
grandson of Vigfus Guttormsson and
Vilborg Petursson of Oak Point and
Lundar and of Kristjan Reykdal and
Sigurborg Petursson of Baldur. He grad-
uated from Prince of Wales High School
in Vancouver and obtained his L.L.B.
from the University of Manitoba with
Honours. He pursued a career in private
practice, accepted a position of
Administrator of Court Services for the
Manitoba government, then a similar
position for the government of
Saskatchewan, after which he re-entered
private practice. He then retired to
become a “gentleman farmer.” He was
involved in the community and had a
creative bent, amongst other accomplish-
ments, having designed courthouses in
both Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Thor
is survived by his wife Deborah (Orca)
des Rivieres, his children Salin, Kris,
Peter, their mother Joan Guttormsson, 4
grandchildren, brothers Kris and Myrie
and sister Norma.
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