PROVO — George Marion Hinckley, a former Provo mayor and cousin of LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley, died at home Sunday, July 2, 2000. He was 91.
Mr. Hinckley is noted for civic service and devotion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In the 1950s, Mr. Hinckley was Provo mayor and a member of the Provo Planning Commission and City Council. He later became a Utah County commissioner.
Mr. Hinckley also served as a bishop and stake president. He was president of the Colorado-New Mexico mission from 1972 to 1975.
The son of Edwin Smith Hinckley and Adeline Henry Hinckley, he graduated from Provo High School in 1927 and attended Brigham Young University, where his father had served as vice president. He married Nita Johnson in 1933 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She is since deceased.
Mr. Hinckley and three brothers received the Brigham Young University Presidential Medal in 1985. The family established the Hinckley Scholarship at BYU in honor of their father.
Mr. Hinckley was a longtime Provo dairy farmer, heading operations of the Hinckley family farm after his father's death. In the 1960s, he nurtured Utah County's sole buffalo herd and his farm was visited by up to 800 schoolchildren a year. He was appointed to the National Agricultural Advisory Committee on Milk and Dairy Products in 1962.
Mr. Hinckley championed conservation programs throughout the state. He was president of the Utah Association of Soil Conservation Districts in 1955, and was named Conservation Farmer of the Year in 1967 by the Timpanogos Soil Conservation District. In 1980, he was elected vice president of the Central Utah Water Conservancy District's board of directors.
Mr. Hinckley also served on Beneficial Life Insurance Co.'s board of directors and Utah Valley LDS Hospital's board of trustees.
Services were Thursday in the Provo West Stake Center, followed by burial in the Provo City Cemetery.