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10 • Lögberg-Heimskringla • July 15 2013
FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS
PhOTO MYSTErY
Do you know these people?
L-H features this series of photographic mysteries in conjunction
with Nelson Gerrard’s Silent Flashes project, which explores early
photography among
Icelandic immigrants
and their descendants in
North America.
Any successful
solutions will be
published.
To obtain further
information on the
Silent Flashes project
or to provide input,
contact Nelson Gerrard
at (204) 378-2758 or
eyrarbakki@hotmail.
com, or by mail at Box
925, Arborg, Manitoba
R0C 0A0.
Check out the Silent
Flashes website and
photo archive at www.
sagapublications.com.
Winnipeg photographer Jón Blöndal took this portrait of
four little sisters (?) with Saskatchewan connections in 1900,
the last year of his photographic career.
Harold Einarsson
Harold Einarsson passed away
peacefully, on Tuesday, June 4, at Deer
Lodge Centre.
He leaves to mourn his partner
Crystal, brothers Rexie (Dreda) and
David, sister-in-law Isabelle and many
nieces, nephews and their families. He
was predeceased by his wife Blanche
(Danielson), sisters Lauga, Asta (Ken),
Stina (Ted), Nello (Russell), sister-in-law
Gina and brothers Dori (Martha), Joe
(Didda) and Raymond.
He was a successful entrepreneur,
owning and operating “Harold’s
Hairstyling and Beauty Salon” a multi-
chair business in Winnipeg’s West
End. It was always fun to visit Harold
and Blanche at the shop for ‘Icelandic’
coffee and good conversation
Harold served in the Royal
Canadian Navy, worked in the Arctic
(DEW line), made several trips to Iceland,
was in the Antarctic, travelled down the
Mackenzie, crossed the Atlantic on
the QE2, returned on a Concorde, and
visited Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong,
Taiwan and Tokyo.
Harold was a story teller, a dapper
gentleman and a smooth dancer. After
Blanche died, these traits served him
well as a social escort on board cruise
ships. He danced his way across the
Pacific to Fiji and Australia, through the
Panama Canal, around Cape Horn and
on the Baltic, with stops along the way.
Closer to home, he hosted many
family get-togethers at his beloved
cottage at Glen Bay.
He was an active and enthusiastic
participant in the Icelandic community,
the Liberal party and, was a past-
president of the Manitoba Hair Stylists
Association.
He planned and supervised the
construction of Arborg’s Curling Rock.
Harold had a deep love for the two
special women in his life and treasured
them. He was devoted to his siblings
and was always available for his nieces
and nephews.
Harold marched to his own
drummer, with a zest for life and people.
He will be deeply missed.
A celebration of Harold’s life was
held at Neil Bardal Funeral Centre on
Saturday, June 15. In lieu of flowers,
friends so wishing may send a donation
to Deer Lodge Centre Foundation, 2109
Portage Ave., Winnipeg, MB R3J 9Z9,
the Salvation Army (Manitoba Division)
http://www.salvationarmy.ca/ or the
United Way of Winnipeg, 580 Main St.,
Winnipeg, MB R3B 9Z9 in Harold’s
memory.
Neil Bardal Funeral Centre, 204-
949-2200, neilbardalinc.com
Sigridur Edna Kristbjorg Jean
Sigurdson Pytlowany
Sigridur passed away on June
16, 2013 in Saskatoon, SK. She died
peacefully in Saskatoon City Hospital
after two years of declining health. Jean
was born in 1930 in Wynyard, SK.
She was the sixth of ten children
born to Sigrun and Baldwin Sigurdson.
Jean spent her early years on the
farm, eventually moving into the town
of Wynyard. She attended school in
Wynyard and began her working life
there. As a young woman Jean enjoyed
skating, dancing, socializing and golf-
ing. Jean married Walter Pytlowany. In-
itially they made their home in Prince
George, BC where Wally was employed
with the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.
They returned to Saskatchewan, liv-
ing first in Regina and then in North
Battleford, where Wally worked for
the Co-op. During the early years in
North Battleford, Jean was a typical
stay at home mom, volunteering at
her daughters’ school and keeping up
a very nice house and yard. Jean later
returned to school, attending Reeves
Business College. She then worked at
The Battlefords Credit Union for many
years. She enjoyed curling and was
active in the North Batttleford curling
club.
Jean took up downhill skiing
in her fifties and made several ski
trips to the mountains. She enjoyed
gardening, baking and preserving. She
was an active volunteer with the New
Democratic Party. Upon retirement, Jean
and Wally spent several winters in Yuma,
Arizona, enjoying good weather, visiting
with friends and family, sight-seeing
and golfing. They became grandparents
in 1990 and Jean enjoyed being Amma
to her four grandchildren, babysitting
all of them at various times. After Wally
died in 1997, Jean eventually moved
from North Battleford back to Wynyard.
In Wynyard, Jean played bridge,
golfed and enjoyed socializing. She was
an active volunteer at Golden Acres and
with the Vatnabyggd Icelandic Club. Due
to ill health, she moved to Saskatoon in
2011, living at Preston Park Retirement
Home and Prairie Springs Care Home.
Jean enjoyed travelling and made trips
to Cuba, Mexico, and various places in
Canada and the United States, often
with her children and grandchildren.
In 2008, Jean travelled to Iceland,
fulfilling a long ago promise she made
to her Amma, who emigrated from
Iceland to Canada. Jean was especially
proud and fond of her Icelandic heritage,
being able to speak Icelandic and bake
Icelandic goodies.
Jean was predeceased by her
parents Baldwin and Sigrun Sigurdson,
her husband Walter Pytlowany, her
brothers Baldur, John, Woodrow, Wally
and Alstan Sigurdson, her brothers-
in-law Norm Collins, Reuban Pocha,
and Cec Daverson, and sisters-in-law
Anne Daverson, Elizabeth Koopman,
Sally Sigurdson, and Olga Sigurdson.
Jean is survived by her two daughters,
Tracy (David MacLachlan) and Karen
(Ray Unger) and her four grandchildren,
Leland, Rowan, Hannah and Beth. She
is also survived by her sisters, Dora
Collins, Jennie Sigurdson and Irene
Dube, her brother Ray Sigurdson,
Obituaries
Graduations
Stephanie Jonsson, a past
participant of the Snorri Group,
has recently graduated from her
Masters of Fine Arts at Emily Carr
University. After graduating with
her undergraduate degree in
Sculpture from the University of
Alberta in 2005, Stephanie took
five years off to be a professional
artist and educator. Since then, she
has had many exhibitions, grants,
and residencies in Edmonton,
Calgary, Banff, and Vancouver. After
graduating in October of 2012 with
her Master of Fine Arts, Stephanie accepted a position as a Ceramics professor
in Fine Art at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, BC, where she is
teaching for the summer. You can view her artwork at www.stephaniejonsson.
com. Stephanie’s parents are Ben and Claire Jonsson from Spruce Grove, AB.
Her Afi was the late Steingrimur Jonsson from Sigluness, Manitoba, and her
paternal grandmother is Clara Jonsson who lives in Edmonton, AB.
Katherine Jonsson of Spruce
Grove, Alberta, recently graduated
with her Masters of Science in
Materials Engineering from the
University of Alberta, where she
also completed her undergraduate
degree in Materials Engineering
in 2009. She is currently working
in Edmonton, Alberta doing
Failure Analysis and engineering
assessments for various industries.
Katherine’s family includes
parents, Ben and Claire, and sister,
Stephanie, from Spruce Grove, AB,
and paternal grandmother Clara
Jonsson from Edmonton, AB. Her Afi is the late Steingrimur Jonsson from
Sigluness, Manitoba. Katherine participated in the 2005 Snorri Program and
is currently Treasurer of the Icelandic Canadian Club of Edmonton.
Visit our website for more information or contact our INL office.Tel: 204-642-5897
Email: inl@mts.net If you don’t have a club in your area but are interested
in forming one, please call the INL office.
Wouldn’t your amma and afi be proud? www.inlofna.org
Are you proud of your Icelandic Heritage?
Do you want to see it preserved for your children and grandchildren?
Are you a member of your local Icelandic Club?
Don’t know where they are or who to contact?
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The IcelandIc naTIonal league of norTh amerIca
First Lutheran Church
580 Victor Street
Winnipeg R3G 1R2
204-772-7444
www.mts.net/~flcwin
Worship with us
Sundays 10:30 a.m.
Pastor Michael Kurtz
Greetings from
Gordon J. Reykdal
Honorary Consul of the
Republic of Iceland
15511 - 123 Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
T5V 0C3
Tel: (780) 408-5118
Fax: (780) 443-2653
E-mail: gord@csfinancial.ca
her brothers-in-law Harry Koopman
and Leslie Dube, her sisters-in-law
Jean Pocha and Mary Sigurdson,
and numerous nieces, nephews,
cousins and other extended family.
Jean’s family would like to thank all
the folks that helped her remain as
healthy and independent as possible,
including her friends and neighbours
in Wynyard, staff at Preston Park and
Prairie Springs Care Home, Saskatoon
Home Support, Dr. Szott and staff at
Saskatoon Community Clinic, doctors
and staff at Saskatoon Health Region,
including Home Care, RUH Cardiology,
and the staff at SCH Transitional Care
Unit and the Palliative Care Team, who
kept her comfortable in her last days.
Stephanie Jonsson
Katherine Jonsson