Ruth Bitner Hinckley Willes
1914 - 1982

Father: Bryant Stringham Hinckley
Mother: Ada Bitner Hinckley
Spouse: Joseph Simmons Willes
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Her sphere of love and influence in all areas of her life was as great as her inner moral grandeur. Ruth [Bitner] Hinckley Willis [Willes], died Monday, September 13, 1982, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was born February 3, 1914, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Bryant S. and Ada Bitner Hinckley.

On October 9, 1936, she married Joseph S. Willis [Willes] in the Salt Lake Temple. She lived her entire life in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she attended local schools, graduated from East High School and LDS Business College and was a student at the University of Utah. In her younger years, she was a legal secretary and for 13 years, in her later life, she was an employment counselor at the University of Utah for students in the work-study program and other part-time employment.

She was active in all the auxiliaries of the LDS Church [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], as a teacher, as president of the 18th Ward Primary organization and on the stake board of the Ensign Stake Primary, in the presidency of the MIA of the 18th Ward, as president of the Relief Society of the Monument Park 3rd Ward, and in the stake presidency of the Salt Lake Foothill Stake Relief Society. She was active in the PTA and the DUP.

She is survived bv her husband and the following children, Mrs. Richard B. (Joan) Peterson, Mrs. W. David (Marcia) Price, Salt Lake City; Dr. Mark H. Willis [Willes], Minneapolis, Minnesota; Mrs. Mark W. (Janet) Mitchell, Idaho Falls, Idaho; Mrs. John W. (Yvonne) Meeker, Phoenix, Arizona; also surviving are 17 grandchildren; one great-grandchild, and the following brothers and sisters, Elder Gordon B. Hinckley of the First Presidency of the LDS Church, Sherman B. Hinckley, Mrs. Patrick J. (Ramona) Sullivan, Mrs. Carol H. Cannon, Mrs. Lester J. (Venice) Nielson, and Mrs. O. Preston (Christine) Robinson, and her step-mother, Mrs. Lois Anderson Hinckley, all of Salt Lake City, Utah.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, September 16, 1982, at 12:00 Noon in the Monument Park 3rd Ward Chapel, Roosevelt Avenue and 22nd East. Friends may call at the Russon Brothers Mortuary, 255 South 2nd East, Wednesday 6-8 p.m. and Thursday at the ward 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. Interment: Salt Lake City Cemetery. For those desiring to, contributions may be made to the Primary Children's Hospital.

-- The Salt Lake Tribune | Salt Lake City, Utah | Wednesday, 15 September 1982 | p. 31 | transcribed with some editing [last name and name of Church] and corrections (matching style guide of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in names of callings) by Annie Duckett Hundley | 31 December 2020
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NOTE: Her last name, Willes, is incorrectly written as Willis throughout her published obituary and the clipping posted to this memorial.