Barney Holbrook Hilton

Barney H. Hilton beloved father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, neighbor and friend died peacefully early in the morning of March 25, 2009. His good humor and optimism remained to the end. Barney was born to Joseph Clarence and Gladys Richins Hilton on September 1, 1915 in Pleasant Grove, Utah. He spent his childhood and early adult years in Pleasant Grove, graduating from Pleasant Grove High School class of 1933. He married Vera Lee Beckett on March 17, 1939, in the Salt Lake Temple. They were married for sixty-six years until her death in June, 2005.

Dad loved playing saxophone and clarinet with dance bands throughout Utah and Wyoming during his younger years and continued to do so throughout his life until arthritis took his ability to find the keys on his sax. He enjoyed fishing into his eighty's first with his sons and then with his grandsons. Dad was first and foremost a family man who loved having his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren around him and they loved him also.

He was a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served his church in many capacities during his life, but most enjoyed his missionary service: The Netherlands, 1936a