Árdís - 01.01.1958, Síða 47

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Mrs. Sigridur Landy
Mrs. Sigridur Landy passed
away Oct. 25th, 1957 at the Betel
Home, Gimli, after a lengthy in-
firmity including that of loss of
sight.
She was born Dec. 9th, 1867 in
Borgarfjordur, Myrasyslu, Iceland,
her parents being Magnus Jonsson
and Helga Thorsteinsdottir.
Sigridur was the widow of
Sigurdur Landy, her husband by
second marriage. Her first husband
having been John Landy.
Surviving are five daughters,
Laura, Mrs. Conrad Nordman of
Cypress River; Emily, Mrs. John Sigvaldson, Colorado; Jonina,
Mrs. F. (Dr.) Fjeldsted, Brandon, Man.; Anna, Mrs. Donald Hunt,
Colorado, and Dora, Mrs. Thos. Johnson, Winnipeg. Also surviving
is a sister, Mrs. G. Harpell, Winnipeg, and a brother, Gudmundur
Borgford, Arborg, Man.
Sigridur came to Winnipeg in the year 1888, and except for a
few years in Winnipeg, lived in the Argyle settlement a few miles
southwest of Cypress River, where her husbands succesively farm-
ed. After becoming widowed and with the strenuous years on the
farm behind her, she chose to enter the quiet and peaceful atmos-
phere of the Home of the Children of the Sunset where her last
remaining years were spent.
Her many friends remember her as a person ever ready with
a helping hand, generously unselfish and with staunch Christian
convictions.
—S.O.B.