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Show Final Rites Held Saturday For WiJford B. Hilton Funeral services for Wilford B. Hilton, 58, prominent churchman, businessman, and farmer of Delta, were held Saturday at 2 p. m. in Delta Second ward. He died in a Salt Lake City hospital at 5 p. m. Wednesday after a long illness. He was born at Virgin City, Wash ington county, March 20, 1892, a son of John Hugh and Maria Parker Par-ker Hilton, early Utah pioneers. His family moved to Hinckley in 1900 and most of his life had been spent in Hinckley and Delta. He was graduated from Millard stake academy at Hinckley, and later attended the BYU at Provo and USAC at Logan. He taught school at Hatton for a time. He was always an unusually good I student. j On August 10, 1921 in the St. George temple, he married Vera Snow, daughter of Mary Alice Gardner Gar-dner and the late Jeter Snow, of Pine Valley. i'i. jmiuit nna ail atuve member mem-ber of the LDS church. From 1916 to 1919 he served as a missionary in Holland. He had been ward and stake superintendent of the . YMMIA; a member of the District Boy Scout Council and high councilman. coun-cilman. From 1935 to 1942 he was a counselor in the Deseret stake presidency. He was chairman of the committee which worked out the budget plan for the stake. He had been an efficent teacher in Sunday School, MIA and priesthood classes. In 1919 he organized Hilton Bros. Motor Co., with garage and service stations in Delta and Hinckley, Hin-ckley, which he operated until 1947, when he sold and retired. For a number of years he had the contract for operating the school buses of Millard county. During recent years he had supervised farming far-ming operations on his large farm near Delta. He is survived by his wife at Delta; threle sons, Wilford Bruce Hilton, in the New England LDS iiuaaiuii, wiease onuw xiiuun, in int mission home at Salt Lake City. Horace Gill Hilton, a student at the BYU; four daughters, Mrs. Ray S. (Lora) Whiting, Mapleton, Utah; Mrs. Walter H. (Carol) Prusse, Og-den; Og-den; Mrs. Rodney (Dawn) Porter, Afton, Wyo.; and Lael Hilton, of Delta; four grandchildren; three Sisters, Mrs. Bernard Hinton, Hurricane; Hurri-cane; Mrs. Ray S. Bishop, Delta; and Mrs. Arden E. Allen, Oakland, Cal.. and seven brothers, Hugh Hilton, Roy Hilton, Hinckley; Eugene Eu-gene Hilton, Oakland, Cal.; Ivin Hil ton, Bonanza, Utah; Virgil Hilton, Clearfield; Clement Hilton, Denver, Colo., and Lyle Hilton, Albequer-que, Albequer-que, N. M. Bishop William S. Bassett conducted con-ducted the services, which opened with organ prelude played by Mrs. Thelma Black, and prayer by E. L. Lyman. lone H. Christensen sang a vocal solo. A biography, "Dad's Life", was given by June W. Black. Mrs. Norma Nor-ma Hannifin played a violin solo. L. Jay Nelson and M. Ward Moo-day Moo-day were the following speakers and paid tribute to Mr. Hilton as a man whose life was guided by spiritual principles and integrity. He was revered by his family and friends and had contributed greatly great-ly to the welfare of his community. After remarks by Bishop Bassett, Cherie Hannifin sang a vocal solo. The services closed with prayer by Ned Church. Postlude was played pla-yed by Mrs. Black. Burial was in the Delta cemetery, ceme-tery, where the grave was dedicated dedicat-ed by Pres. Jos. T. Finlinson. |
