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Family of Halfdan Julius RAFNSSON and Grace Eleanora KNUTSON

  • Husband:

  • Halfdan Julius RAFNSSON (1908-1969)

  • Wife:

  • Grace Eleanora KNUTSON (1912-1996)

  • Children:

  • Richard Wallace RAFNSON (1938-2002)

  • Residence (family):

  • 1927

  • Minneota, Minnesota, USA

  • Marriage:

  • May 15, 1937

  • Minneota, Minnesota, USA1,2

  • Residence (family):

  • 1940

  • Minneota, Lyon County, Minnesota, USA

  • Residence (family):

  • 1959

  • Rapid City, S. Dakota USA

  • Residence (family):

  • 1969

  • 57701 Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, USA

Husband: Halfdan Julius RAFNSSON

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Halfdan Julius RAFNSSON

  • Name:

  • Halfdan Julius RAFNSSON

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Pjetur Fridholm RAFNSSON (1878-1941)

  • Mother:

  • Jóhanna Katrín Ingibjörg JÓHANNSDÓTTÍR (1872-1921)

  • Birth:

  • Jan 26, 1908

  • Gimli, Manitoba3

  • Residence:

  • 1916 (age 7-8)

  • 17 4 E1, Gimli District, Manitoba4

  • Immigration:

  • "TO USA"

  • to Pre-Examination Date: 19 March 1928 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada5

  • Residence:

  • 1921 (age 12-13)

  • Glenborow Village, South Cypress, Manitoba6

  •  

  • Address: 10 7 14 W1

  • Occupation:

  • 1940 (age 31-32)

  • gas station attendent, Minneota, Lyon County, Minnesota, USA (70 hours per week)5

  • Residence:

  • 1941 (age 32-33)

  • Minneota, Minnesota, USA7

  • Census:

  • "USA 1940"

  • Minneota, Lyon County, Minnesota, USA5

  • U.S. Social Security Number:

  •  

  • USA SSN:468-22-5133 (State (Year) SSN issued: Minnesota (Before 1951))5

  • Education:

  •  

  • 2nd year high school5

  • Death:

  • May 15, 1969 (age 61)

  • St. Johns McNamara Hospital, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA1,8

  •  

  • Cause: cancer

  • Burial:

  •  

  • Saint Pauls Icelandic Cemetery, Minneota, Lyon County, Minnesota, USA5

Wife: Grace Eleanora KNUTSON

  • Name:

  • Grace Eleanora KNUTSON

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • Jul 7, 1912

  • Minneota, Minnesota, U.S.A.1,2,5

  • Residence:

  • 1935 (age 22-23)

  • Chicago, Illinois, USA5

  • Occupation:

  • 1940 (age 27-28)

  • waitress in a cafe (70 hours a week)5

  • Death:

  • Oct 10, 1996 (age 84)

  • Minneota, Lyon County, Minnesota, USA2,5

  • Burial:

  •  

  • Saint Pauls Cemetery, Minneota, Lyon County, Minnesota, USA5

Child 1: Richard Wallace RAFNSON

  • Name:

  • Richard Wallace RAFNSON

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • PRIVATE ( - )

  • Birth:

  • Aug 31, 1938

  • Minneota, Lyon County, Minnesota, USA1,2,5

  • Residence:

  • 1940 (age 1-2)

  • Minneota, Lyon County, Minnesota, USA5

  • Residence:

  •  

  • Rapid City, S. Dakota USA1

  • Death:

  • Jun 21, 2002 (age 63)

  • Minneota, Minnesota, United States2

Note on Husband: Halfdan Julius RAFNSSON

"Halli" was born at Gimli, Manitoba in 1908 to Pjetur Fridholm and Johanna (Bjering) Rafnson, and grew up in Canada. He worked for Arni Josephson. When the work ended, Arni suggested he come to the Minneota area, as Arni's sons, Helgi and S. Frank, would have farmwork. It was about 1928 when Halli came to Minneota.

 

Halli and Grace Knutson (daughter of Swen and Mary Knutson) were married May 15, 1937. They farmed for a year, then moved into town and operated a gas station until Halli went west on defense work. He worked at the Rapid City Air Base, at Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, and then on the Alaskan Highway, where he said he saw the sun set in the west at the same time it rose in the east. After nine months in Alaska, he spent eight months in Greenland.

 

After his defense work finished, he and Grace operated the Red Owl Store in Minneota. Business was good until the 1957 flood. They lost all their supplies and the freezers needed repairs, so they closed the store and moved to Rapid City. Halli worked for several construction companies and then for William Anderson (brother of Elizabeth) in his cabinet shop until Halli found he had cancer. He died May 15, 1969.

 

Grace and their son, Richard, went with Halli whenever they could, and stayed with his relatives in Winnepeg when they couldn't. She has worked in clerking positions in many places, and while she lived in Milroy was manager of the Milroy Apartments. She moved back to Minneota in June, 1985 and lives in the Tri-Minn Apartments.

 

Halli was the brother of Johann, Pjetur, Norman, Anna (Davidson) and Adaiheidur (Goodine). This Rafnson family is not related to others from Minneota.

Sources

1.

unknown, Lögberg-Heimskringla.

2.

MyHeritage.com.

3.

Government of Manitoba, Registration of birth.

4.

Government of Canada, Canadian Census 1916.

5.

Ancestry.com.

6.

Canadian Government, Canadian Census 1921.

7.

unknown, Lögberg.

8.

Ancestry.ca.