See also
Husband:
Halfdan Julius RAFNSSON (1908-1969)
Wife:
Grace Eleanora KNUTSON (1912-1996)
Children:
Residence (family):
1927
Minneota, Minnesota, USA
Marriage:
May 15, 1937
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
Name:
Halfdan Julius RAFNSSON
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
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
"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.
unknown, Lögberg-Heimskringla.
MyHeritage.com.
Government of Manitoba, Registration of birth.
Government of Canada, Canadian Census 1916.
Ancestry.com.
Canadian Government, Canadian Census 1921.
unknown, Lögberg.
Ancestry.ca.