Beloved Church President, Gordon B. Hinckley, Dies at 97
SALT LAKE CITY 27 January 2008 President Gordon B. Hinckley, who led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through twelve years of global expansion, has died at the age of 97.
President Hinckley was the 15th president in the 177-year history of the Church and had served as its president since 12 March 1995.
The Church president died at his apartment in downtown Salt Lake City at 7:00 p.m. Sunday night from cause’s incident to age. Member of his family were at his bedside. A successor is not expected to be formally chosen by the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles until after President Hinckley’s funeral within the next few days.
I was so sad to hear of Pres. Hinckley's passing yet so happy for him to be with his sweetheart again. What a wonderful man and prophet he was! He will be missed by us all. The Plan of Salvation is wonderful! We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that we will be with our loved ones again. We are so blessed!
I've been married to my husband Ron, for 40 years now...that's a long time. I'm a mother of 1 daughter(Heather) and two sons (Ronnie and Christopher), 2 daughter-in-laws (Aleia and Bailey), 1 son-in-law (Heath) and I am a grandmother of 13 wonderful grandchildren. 7 grandsons: Tyson, Ethan, Andrew, Jonah, Brody, Rigden, Tillman and 6 granddaughters: Faith, Sophia, Saige, Jaylee, Graci. My family is my JOY and MY WORLD!!!
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Our Beloved Prophet will really be busy now helping to prepare for the Savior's Second Coming. We shall all miss him but can you even imagine the welcome and rejoicing in Heaven to have him Home again.
I will miss him to he was always so inspiring and positive.
Looks like you guys had fun in the snow! We are snowed in around here, well school has been cancelled twice this week and will probably be tommorow. We need to get out there and build a snowman. :)
What an Awesome and inspiring man. He will be missed.
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