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Show a former postirn.stcr, n.s.sns.sor ;md legislator from Millnrd county. Hinckley served the church on a mission to Holland and another in California, where he took a leading1 lead-ing1 role in. church organization work. Funeral services were to be conducted con-ducted Thursday nt the L. D. S. tabernacle here. Hinckley married Rose May Robison at Fillmore, Utah, when he was 22 years of age. They had 14 children. The widow and 12 children survive. DEATH CLAIMS L. D. S JPOSTLE SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 22 (f.I!) Alonzo A. Hinckley, 66, member mem-ber of the Council of Twelve, L. D. S. church died today after a long illness at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Craven. Elder Hinckley was well known in Provo where he attended school at the old Brigham Young academy acad-emy at one time. He was a brother of the late Prof. Edwin S. Hinckley who was secretary of the Provo chamber of commerce for many years. His last public appearance in Provo was at the time he delivered deliv-ered the baccalaureate sermon at the Brigham Young univrsity exercises in the stake tabernacle two years ago. Hinckley, a pioneer in Utah and church affairs, was the youngest member of the council, the church's highest body. Be became a counselor in October, 1934. He was born April 23, 1870, at historic Cove Fort which .Ira N. Hinckley, his father, built in the days when Indians and outlaws still ranged the western frontier. He served as an educator, merchant mer-chant and public official, being |