Marjorie Pay Hinckley, wife of Mormons' president, dead at 92

Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — Marjorie Pay Hinckley, 92 , wife of Mormon church President Gordon B. Hinckley, died yesterday.

She died at home surrounded by her husband and other members of her family, church spokesman Dale Bills said. He attributed her death to "causes incident to age."

The Hinckleys had been married 67 years. They have five children and 25 grandchildren.

Marjorie Hinckley fell ill in January while returning with her husband from the dedication of a Mormon temple in West Africa.

Gordon Hinckley, 93, disclosed his wife's illness Sunday at the church's general conference, the first such meeting she had missed in 46 years.

Marjorie Hinckley was born in Nephi, Utah. The Hinckleys married in 1937 in the Salt Lake temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

"The family that I grew up in consisted of one brother and four sisters and a mother and father who were absolutely devoted to the Church," she told Brigham Young Magazine in 1996. "It was a prayerful home. We prayed about everything, and I mean everything — that we wouldn't burn the soup."

Bills said services would not immediately be held.

Hinckley was an avid reader, and received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Utah Valley State College in April 2001 and an honorary doctorate in Christian Service from Brigham Young University in April 2000.