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Mrs. Elina Egilsson
1889 - 1958
Elina Egilsson passed away at
her home, 669 Wolseley Ave.,
Winnipeg on April 20th 1958, after
a short illness. Born in Iceland,
the daughter of the late Johannes
and Sigurlaug Einarsson, March
1889. The family came to Canada
that same year and settled in the
Yorkton District, Saskatchewan.
Elina attended public school there
and the F.M.C.A. in Winnipeg. In
1920 she married Paul G. Egilsson.
He died in May of 1936 and their
only son, fourteen years of age,
died in 1943.
Mrs. Egilsson was affiliated with
the Willing Workers of Calder,
Saskatchewan and the Senior
Ladies Aid of the First Lutheran Church, Winnipeg, these last
few years.
Mrs. Egilsson is survived by three daughters: Laura of Edmon-
ton, (Elin) Mrs. K. Petch of Comox B.C., (Margaret) Mrs. Paul
Bergman and (Freda) Mrs. Frank Papero of Winnipeg and Jona of
Saigon, Indo-China, and one sister Mrs. Margaret Martin of Win-
nipeg, and six brothers: Steini, Regina, Sask., Joe and Ingi and
Sveinnn, Calder, Sask., Bill, in Washington D.C., Mundi in Chicago,
111., Einar of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba and Frank of Prince Al-
bert, Sask. They acted as pallbearers.
The funeral was conducted by Dr. V. J. Eylands from Bardal
Funeral Home and at Brookside Cemetery, on April 10, 1958. A. F.