Eugene Hilton

1889 - 1982  (92 år)    Has ingen forfædre men 7 efterkommere i dette stamtræ.

• Navn	Eugene Hilton
  Fødsel	12 nov. 1889	Virgin, Washington, Utah, USA
  Køn	Mand
  Dåb	12 nov. 1897
  FSID	KWCW-QWC
  Bopæl	1920	Lehi, Utah, Utah, USA
  Bopæl	1935	Lehi, Utah, Utah, USA
  Bopæl	1940	Oakland, Alameda, California, USA
  Død	24 aug. 1982	Provo, Utah, Utah, USA
  Begravelse	30 aug. 1982	Memory Gardens Cemetery, Contra Costa, California, USA
  Person-ID	I132332	AALT
  Sidst ændret	6 jan. 2021

  
  

  Familie	Ruth Naomi Savage,   f. 10 jul. 1891, Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona, USA d. 8 apr. 1969, Oakland, Alameda, California, USA (Alder 77 år)
  Ægteskab	28 sep. 1916	St George, Washington, Utah, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Alder ved indgåelse af ægteskab	Han : 26 år og 10 måneder - Hun : 25 år og 2 måneder.
  Børn	1. Joseph Roy Hilton,   f. 16 apr. 1919, Lehi, Utah, Utah, USA d. 18 mar. 1985, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA (Alder 65 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]   2. George Fayette Hilton,   f. 6 apr. 1930, Berkeley, Alameda, California, USA d. 14 mar. 2003, Lafayette, Contra Costa, California, USA (Alder 72 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]   3. John Levi Hilton,   f. 25 maj 1927, Woodruff, Navajo, Arizona d. 12 mar. 2000, Provo, Utah, Utah, USA (Alder 72 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]   4. Eugene Savage Hilton,   f. 16 jul. 1917, Hinckley, Millard, Utah, USA d. 11 feb. 1997, Oakland, Alameda, California, USA (Alder 79 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]   5. Lynn Mathers Hilton,   f. 3 nov. 1924, Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, USA d. 12 aug. 2020, Perry, Box Elder, Utah, USA (Alder 95 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]   6. Phyl Normington Hilton,   f. 5 jan. 1921, Blackfoot, Caldwell, Idaho d. 17 dec. 2014 (Alder 93 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]   7. Theodore Caldwell Hilton,   f. 15 nov. 1922, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA d. 13 apr. 2003, Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA (Alder 80 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]
  Familie-ID	F29487	Gruppeskema  |  Familietavle
  Sidst ændret	6 jan. 2021

  
  

• Begivenhedskort

  Fødsel - 12 nov. 1889 - Virgin, Washington, Utah, USA Ægteskab - 28 sep. 1916 - St George, Washington, Utah, USA Bopæl - 1920 - Lehi, Utah, Utah, USA Bopæl - 1935 - Lehi, Utah, Utah, USA Bopæl - 1940 - Oakland, Alameda, California, USA Død - 24 aug. 1982 - Provo, Utah, Utah, USA  = Link til Google Earth

  
  

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  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.

  
  

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