Marjorie Hinckley dies | Deseret News
UtahMarjorie Hinckley dies
Beloved wife of LDS Church president  'the lodestar of their family'  dies at 92
Published: April 7, 2004 12:00 a.m.
Local leaders pay respects
Marjorie Hinckley: Every bit his equal
Marjorie Pay Hinckley, wife of LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley, died at 5:05 p.m. Tuesday at her home, surrounded by family, of causes incident to age. She was 92.
Funeral services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. At press time, no decision had been made regarding a viewing.
Following his mission and during his employment at LDS Church headquarters, they were married in the Salt Lake Temple on April 29, 1937. Elder Stephen L Richards, then of the Quorum of the Twelve, performed the ceremony. They then moved into their first home, a family retreat in East Millcreek, at that time a quiet, rural area of the Salt Lake Valley.
"The greatest judgment he has ever shown in his entire life," President Boyd K. Packer, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve, says, "is the judgment he showed in marrying Marjorie Pay. You cannot know him unless you know her  the tender, guiding, patient influence she has been in his life and in that of their children."
"With all the pressures of church service thrust on the Hinckley family, Sister Hinckley has always maintained a balance between her two eternal callings  that of a wife and mother," Elder Perry told the Sunday afternoon congregation.
Just before Christmas, the article said, she had a special grandchildren's Christmas party. The table was set with fancy dishes and dinner served  and only grandchildren were invited. Another trademark was the individual notes on postcards, written to her children and grandchildren during her travels with President Hinckley, asking about the details of their lives and affirming her love for them.
Material taken from a Church News interview, May 23, 1964; Deseret News files; the June 1995 Ensign; the April 1997 New Era; and Church News files.