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• FSID: KWCW-QWC
• Dåb: 12 nov. 1897
• Bopæl: 1920, Lehi, Utah, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1935, Lehi, Utah, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1940, Oakland, Alameda, California, USA

Notater:

Eugene Hilton was born in the town of Virgin, Utah, November 12th, 1889. His first ten years were spent in Virgin and then the family moved with all their belongings in the family wagon to Church Farm. A few years later that area was renamed Abraham, Utah.

The years at Church Farm were difficult ones. Eugene remembered that it was necessary to dilute the milk with water in order to have enough for the whole family of eleven children. A few years later they moved a short distance to Hinckley which became the permanent headquarters for the Hilton family.

Eugene had a thirst for knowledge and education. He loved school. At one point in his young adult life he was working his way through school at the Brigham Young Academy in Provo when he received a message that he had to come home to help on the family farm. Reluctantly he left the B.Y.A. and returned home.

It was uncommon for young men of Hinckley, Utah to go on missions. So it was rather a special event when Eugene was called at age 24, to serve a mission for the Church in the Eastern States Mission. He had a very successful mission. His last duty was that of Conference President of the East Pennsylvania Conference, covering most of the eastern part of that state, including Philadelphia.

A very providential event took place at that time. He was asked to stay on an extra three months, making it a 27 month mission, to continue his administration of that Conference in Philadelphia. During that three month extension the first two lady missionaries were called to serve in the Eastern States Mission. He had the duty to meet and orient them and assign them to their duties. There was one sister from Idaho and Sister Ruth Naomi Savage from Woodruff, Arizona. A few months later Eugene was honorably released and returned home to finish his high school education. He circumspectly corresponded with Sister Savage throughout the duration of Ruth Naomi's mission. She returned home from her mission just in time for April Conference in Salt Lake City and Eugene was waiting at the train station. The first day after her return she accepted his proposal for marriage.

Eugene and Ruth were both outstanding missionaries and were married in the St. George temple, as both of their parents had been, on September 28, 1916.

Their love of education made their first step quite clear - obviously they must go back to Provo and complete his academic work. These were happy days that included playing the trombone in the dance band, serving as class president and participating on the debating team.

The church encouraged Eugene to take a position to open the seventh seminary of the Church, in Lehi, Utah. Off to Lehi they went. Next he was drafted by the Church to open the seminary work in Blackfoot, Idaho. Then back to Salt Lake for an assignment on the faculty of the LDS University with a calling to serve on the General Sunday School Board. They had a lovely brick home and settled into what looked like a permanent home.

But the Church had need of a strong administrator to get accreditation for the Church College (Gila College) in Thatcher, Arizona, and Eugene was tapped for the job. So in their model "7" they went all the way to southern Arizona where he served as President of the College. Among the happy memories of those days were the occasions when Eugene was called upon to sing in Church or in the Rotary Club. The Stake Clerk, Spencer W. Kimball, usually accompanied him.

During their Salt Lake years, he had earned his Master's Degree at the University of Utah. With Ruth’s encouragement they decided to go all the way for a doctorate. So they moved to Berkeley, California and Eugene was successful in earning his third academic degree as a Doctor of Education. His Doctoral dissertation was accorded unusual recognition and when the University elected to publish it in book form, a rather special acknowledgment of an outstanding dissertation. That was 1930; in that same year he took a position with the Oakland Public School District as Superintendent of Social Studies. He spent his entire professional career in the Oakland School System with several important responsibilities, including principal.

Those Oakland years were also busy for Eugene and he liked to reflect back on those years as he states it, as the "wearing of four hats".

His first hat was the calling from which he would never be released, that of husband and father. He expressed great gratitude in noting that each of the eight children completed a mission for the Church, each was married in the Temple, and each of the boys graduated from college. His second hat was that of professional educator in his work in social studies, teaching and school administration.

The third hat that he wore was that of author. He wrote and published many articles as well as ten books. These covered a variety of subjects-religion, history and civics. The most notable was a two volume work, "Problems and Values of Today" for which Eugene received a four thousand dollar prize from the Atlantic Monthly. Four thousand dollars seemed like a fortune in the 1930's.

Ruth was also an accomplished author and had several articles published in the Improvement Era, the Woman’s Journal and the Relief Society Journal.

Eugene’s fourth hat was that of tireless Church worker. He served as a counselor in the Stake Presidency, followed by twelve years as Stake president. During that time the Oakland Stake became the largest stake in the Church. He later served as a Patriarch and Temple Sealer.

Ruth also loved the church and never refused a call to serve. A partial list of her Church callings includes seven ward or stake relief society presidencies, stake literary leader and three years of service as an Ordinance Worker in the Los Angeles and Oakland Temples.

Throughout their life Eugene and Ruth loved sharing the word of the Restoration. Their first mission together was right after Eugene’s retirement in l96l when they served a proselyting mission in Scotland. This was later followed by two academic missions at the Church Colleges in Hawaii and New Zealand. Eugene drew on his experiences at Gila colleges to perform the same task in Laie, Hawaii, getting the academic accreditation for the Church College.

After their third mission, they purchased a beautiful home a half block from the Oakland Temple and settled in for what they thought would be the golden years of Temple work. They were both ordained as ordinance workers in the Oakland Temple where Dad also worked as Sealer. That dream was interrupted by the passing of Ruth.

It was not too many months thereafter that Eugene rediscovered the biblical truth that "It is not good for man to be alone". His path then crossed that of Ruth Catherine. She had lost her husband Jim and it was a beautiful opportunity for the two of them to spend their later years together.

They loved each other and both peacefully ended their mortal probation with their eyes firmly fixed on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Eugene blev gift med Ruth Naomi Savage den 28 sep. 1916 i St George, Washington, Utah, USA. Ruth (datter af Levi Mathers Savage og Hannah Adeline Hatch) blev født den 10 jul. 1891 i Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona, USA; døde den 8 apr. 1969 i Oakland, Alameda, California, USA; blev begravet den 14 apr. 1969 i Memory Gardens Cemetery, Concord, Contra Costa, California, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: KWZ4-S91
• Bopæl: 1920, Lehi, Utah, Utah, USA

Notater:

A short life sketch of Joseph Roy Hilton, Senior

His parents and siblings, Uncles and Aunts called him Joe Roy, but professionally and in the church he was called Joe. His wife, Wanda called him Joe too when she wasn't calling him some tender nickname like Dear, Sweetheart, Man-O-Mine, etc. He was named after two uncles who were serving in the military during World War I, one Joseph and one Roy. When he was born on April 16, 1919 his parents thankful that both were alive and well named him Joseph Roy in celebration. Joe Roy was the second child, both sons, of Eugene Hilton and Ruth Naomi Savage. They went on to have a total of seven sons before finally producing a daughter as the eighth child.

Joe Roy was born in Lehi, Utah and lived in Utah, Idaho, Arizona and finally California where his father settled. Joe Roy carried newspapers for the Oakland Shopping News and received their scholarship for his good service. He was also an Eagle Scout, one of the first in California. He was a Sea Scout and sailed on San Francisco bay with his brothers in their small sailboat named Itsy Maru.

Joe Roy was always a sober young man, but had many friends and was pretty normal growing up in the depression years. His father got a doctorate in Education from the University California and was employed with the Oakland School System and so provided a good living for the large family. Joe Roy liked mechanical things, he tinkered with and repaired cars and helped his father with modifications and additions to their home. He went to the University of California and received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with a Phi Beta Kappa award.

Joe Roy's father was a local leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a bishop of the Dimond Ward and president of the Oakland Stake for many years during which time it was the largest stake in the church. So it was not unexpected that Joe Roy served a mission. He was called originally to Germany, but due to the Second World War hostilities he was sent to the Central States Mission. While in the Mission Home in Salt Lake City he met a fellow missionary named Wanda Fullmer. In those days it was acceptable for those in the mission home to socialize and Joe Roy and Wanda went on a couple of dates. They both went to the same mission but never crossed paths during their missionary service. But on the way out they sat together on the train and Joe Roy remembered Wanda singing so beautifully that his heart was hers from then on. They were married shortly after his return.

Wanda had come home after 18 months of service as a Sister Missionary and had gone to her home in Sugar City, Idaho, where she felt rather provincial and unsophisticated. When Joe Roy was released after 2 years he traveled straight to see Wanda even before coming home to Oakland. While there he proposed to her and she accepted, feeling like a commoner who had a prince fall in love with her and was going to take her to his castle and a life of royal privilege. He went home and told his parents, they all drove out to Salt Lake City to meet Wanda who came with her mother for the wedding which occurred on October 28, 1941.

Back in California Joe Roy and Wanda set up housekeeping with Joe Roy studying at UC. He had been in ROTC and so was able to get a commission in the Navy. He was fortunate enough to get an assignment in Naval Intelligence based on Treasure Island in San Francisco bay, so he was able to come home every night and sleep in his own bed for the duration of the war. A wonderful blessing when so many were enduring such hardship and danger.

They had their first child, Joseph Roy Junior and second, Stephen Homer and third, Susanne before Joe Roy graduated from UC. They lived in Berkeley and Albany while a student and when Joe Roy was employed by Standard Oil Company of California in San Francisco they moved to the East Bay suburb of Pleasant Hill into a new house in the subdivision named Sherman Acres.

While there Joe Roy was called to be the first bishop of the newly formed Pleasant Hill ward. He went on to be bishop for 9 years, after his release he held the position of Priest's adviser for a short time then a member of the High Council for a couple of years. He became counselor to President Norman Creer and in time was called as the President of the Walnut Creek Stake, a position he held for 11 years.

They moved from Pleasant Hill to Walnut Creek and remained in their second Walnut Creek home until they moved to Provo, Utah in 1979.

He and Wanda eventually had 7 children, Joseph Roy Junior, Stephen Homer, Susanne, Karen Louise, Barbara, Thomas Samuel Eugene and William Robert. Barbara was born with a congenital defect eventually diagnosed as Rubensteins Syndrome which resulted in her development to about age 5 mentally and additional physical and mental limitations. Barbara was placed in shelter homes when she got older as a way of giving her social and educational opportunities, but it also gave Wanda needed respite and freedom from the daily needs of a handicapped child. Joe Roy said it was entirely his decision to do this, he did not want Wand a to have to feel any responsibility for shirking her motherly duties.

The greatest tragedy of their lives was when their youngest, William Robert “Billy” died as a result of injuries received on a church snow tubing outing in February 1971. Wanda never was at peace for the rest of her life and grieved continually and deeply for Billy. Joe Roy, however apparently was able to accept the loss as God's will and as difficult as it was, he was able to continue to function quite normally with this peace of acceptance.

He had a successful career with Standard Oil as a pump specialist and turbine engineer. He was called upon to travel worldwide for Standard Oil. He went to Pascagoula, Mississippi on many occasions, to Italy, South America and other places in his work assignments. He related how he turned down promotions because he felt they would compromise his ability to devote needed time to his church assignments.

As a provider he was never wealthy, but always had sufficient for his family's needs. With his church and work assignments his time at home was precious and his children did not see him very much. When his oldest were in high school he decided to make time to be with each child on a Tuesday night for an hour when he would take one to a local hamburger joint and allow them to order anything at all they wanted, a tremendous extravagance for a child of the Great Depression.

In late 1971 Joe Roy was diagnosed with multiple myeloma bone cancer and this eventually took his life. He was able to deal with it well for 15 years. During which time he was placed on long term disability from Standard Oil. He and Wanda determined to move to Provo, Utah which they did in 1979. They lived there serving in the Temple and in a local bishopric until his death in 1985. He served his family and local neighbors as much as his health would allow and was beloved of all who knew him. He was a Sealer in the Provo Temple and a Seminary teacher at Barbara's shelter home in Lindon, Utah.

An experience he records in his journal which shows his faith and closeness to his Father in Heaven is as follows. “I have felt that the Lord has been in charge- that he has a plan for my life. I still feel that way and wish to cooperate with His plan. I will record here what happened to me one night the latter part of 1972 or early 1973. I was having lots of pain with my back as a result of the cancer attack. I had been blessed often and prayed always. This night- about 3 am I was awake with lots of pain and so I prayed a simple prayer, 'Dear Heavenly Father. If possible, please take this pain away or lessen it so I can get some rest. I ask it in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.' Right after this prayer all the pain went away. I was joyfully surprised. I wondered if something had gone wrong with my nerves so I pinched myself and found my nerves were okay. I looked around the room and made sure I was awake. I wiggled to see if a little change of position would make a difference. It didn't. The pain was really gone. I lay in bed grinning and saying, 'Thank you Heavenly Father.' Then the pain started to come back and as it did so the words came into my mind, 'I have heard you, my son, but your plan is not my plan.' The pain thereafter was easier to bear and subsequently the very hard pain was stopped by cobalt radiation which killed the malignant cells which were causing collapse of a vertebra in my back. Since that night I have felt it was the Lord's program and I have been pleased to cooperate with it. I think he expects me to do all I intelligently can to take care of myself and be righteously useful in the earth. I will continue to do this and accept with great peace the Lord's plan for my life.”

Another choice experience that illustrates his spiritual preparation is as follows. Related by second son Stephen. “When Joe Roy was on his deathbed in the University of Utah Medical Center, his wife and all his children except Barbara were in the room. I was next to his head and was attempting to speak peace to him. It occurred to me that he might be concerned or even fearful at the approach of death and so I asked him if he was afraid. He was very weak and could not speak above a faint whisper but upon my question, his eyes flew open in obvious surprise and he beckoned for me to bend down by his mouth. As I did he whispered with all the intensity he could muster, 'This is the greatest adventure of my life!' That is the last thing I remember that he spoke directly to me, soon he lapsed into a coma and he passed away peacefully a few hours later. I have never forgotten his conviction and the confidence and peace it gave him at the critical times of his life. May I be able to do the same.”

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: KWZ1-SJS
• Bopæl: 1935
• Bopæl: 1940, Oakland, Alameda, California, USA

Notater:

George Fayette Hilton is kind and gentle in all aspects of his life. George is cherished by all of his family, because of the amazing legacy he left. George is one of the best persons in the world. A famous scholar once recalled, "George always loves his family" (Boggess). This is very true. There are countless examples of him putting family first. He is truly a remarkable man.

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: KW88-PXW
• Beskæftigelse: Physicist
• Bopæl: 1930, Alameda, California, USA
• Bopæl: 1935
• Bopæl: 1940, Oakland, Alameda, California, USA
• Indvandring: 1947, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Bopæl: 12 mar. 2000, Oakland, Alameda, California, USA
• Obituary: 14 mar. 2000, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA

Notater:

John Hilton was born in Woodruff, AZ and moved to Berkeley, CA in his infancy. John grew up in a big city delivering newspapers, riding streetcars, but also spending much time hiking and camping in the Oakland and Berkeley hills which were then a wilderness.

The only unexpected part of his childhood was that he couldn't learn to read. He seemed bright enough, absorbed all sorts of information, could understand arithmetic, but could not read. His parents took him for intelligence testing, and the results showed he was capable of college prep high school and college courses. Dyslexia didn't have a name then, but when he was 14 or 15 his mother took him in hand, tutoring him with old fashioned phonics and he learned to read very adequately.

John was baptized and advanced normally in the priesthood. He loved primary and Sunday school classes because at church, unlike school, he always knew the answers. He also built a ham radio shack and learned old fashion vacuum tube electronics as a hobby. John received his Eagle Scout award when he was seventeen, a major highlight of his life.

After graduating early from high school, John enlisted in the navy and was sent to radar school in Chicago. Eventually he was assigned to a seaplane tender, USS San Carlos, sailed to Panama and patrolled in the Caribbean area. He was seasick most of the time when at sea, and rejoiced when the war was over and he was discharged.

The immoral lives of most of his sailor associates made him eager to return to an atmosphere of righteousness and he eagerly enrolled as a freshman at BYU at age 19. It was here he met the lovely Jan Fenn from Gallup, NM.

The courtship of John and Jan was cut short by John’s departure to Brazil to serve a full time mission for two and a half years when there was but one mission and 425 partially active members in the entire nation..

With no training Portuguese was not easy to learn. Through hard work and miracles, John learned the language, to love the Brazilian people, and taught the gospel which started the spiritual boom Brazil has today.

Meanwhile, Jan was in school and taught first grade the next year at an Indian School.

John said that the greatest blessing from his mission was that Jan was still around when he returned. They were married in the Arizona Temple, August 7, 1950.

In September they were both in school again at BYU. Jan was a senior and John a sophomore. They worked their way through college and their first child. They moved the Albuquerque where they lived for five years. John worked at Sandia for five years mostly on classified programs but he did publicly receive several patents.

In December 1957, John took employment at Aerojet Nucleonics, in San Ramon, CA, and they built a home in Walnut Creek, CA where we lived for thirty years. John worked on the H-Bomb and fusion energy for 12 years and then worked for the Cyclotron Corporation in Berkeley, developing a high energy neutron generator for radiation therapy which was helpful in the treatment of a number of cancers.

Perhaps their greatest accomplishment was raising eight righteous children in the Bay Area in the 60's and 70's. All eight were good scholars, many were highly gifted in music, and most importantly all loved the Lord, four served missions and all married in the temple.

In 1980 John became intensely interested in a computer study of author attribution called word prints, learning how to do computer programming and statistics as by products. When their youngest child was married in August of 1988, the week of her wedding, they sold their home without putting it on the market, resigned from the school board, and accepted an invitation to come to the Statistics Department at BYU where John worked as an adjunct professor concentrating on word print research, with a primary focus on the Book of Mormon.

In this work John was able to show much internal verification in the Book of Mormon as well as many secular writings.

During their Provo years John and Jan traveled twice to Mexico and Guatemala doing Book of Mormon geographical research; they also traveled to as tourists to Russia.

On March 12, 2000 John unexpectedly died of cardiac arrest; he had been fighting colon cancer prior to that. Jan reported that “Joy was possible only because of the sure knowledge or the resurrection and exaltation in the Kingdom of God.”

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Military Draft Registration: Oakland, Alameda, California, USA
• FSID: KWZF-3BJ
• Bopæl: Alameda, California, Oakland
• Bopæl: 1920, Lehi, Utah, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1930, Alameda, California, USA
• Bopæl: 1935
• Bopæl: 1940, Oakland, Alameda, California, USA

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: G9M6-MZG

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: KWZG-3BV
• Bopæl: King, Washington, USA
• Bopæl: 1930, Alameda, California, USA
• Bopæl: 1935
• Bopæl: 1940, Brooklyn, Alameda, California, USA

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: KW84-XQL
• Bopæl: 1930, Alameda, California, USA
• Bopæl: 1935
• Bopæl: 1940, Oakland, Alameda, California, USA