Lynn M Hilton and Nancy Goldberg Hilton
Meet the Authors
Lynn M Hilton was born LDS in Arizona and raised in California. He was a B-24 bomber pilot in the US army for nearly three years during World War II. After the war he served, without purse or script, as a LDS missionary in the New England Mission, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
In 1952 he earned a PhD degree from the University of Chicago in Educational Administration and was appointed Professor of Education at BYU Provo. He served there for twelve years as Associate Dean of Continuing Education and founder and chairman of the BYU Salt Lake Adult Education Center.
He was later a successful businessman. He served a term as an elected member of the Utah House of Representatives.
Lynn and his first wife, Hope were called and set apart for a special mission to lead the original expedition to the Arab world to find the ancient trail of Lehi and Nephi and their family from Jerusalem to Bountiful where Nephi built his ocean going ship. They completed this assignment in 1976. Lynn's research was published in two long articles in the Ensign Magazine in 1976. The articles were entitled In Search of Lehi's Trail.
Lynn has lived twelve years in Arab countries and speaks Arabic. Lynn's first wife Hope, died in 1999. Two years later he met and married Nancy.
Nancy Goldberg Hilton was born Jewish. She graduated from the University of Texas with a BS in Fine Arts. She was a business woman in Dallas, Texas in the title insurance industry.
In 1992 Nancy experienced a real miracle of God, a “burning bush experience” where she was given the knowledge of a living God and his son Jesus Christ, who is her Messiah. After searching four more years she found the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was baptized in 1996.
She then sold her business and her home, and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, and accepted a two and one-half year mission in the Family History Library.
During this calling she completed a database of the specifically Jewish Records in the Family History Library Catalog which was donated to the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS). For this work, the IAJGS gave her an award for her outstanding contribution at their July 2001 international genealogical conference.
At the end of her mission at the Family History Library she met and was married and sealed to Lynn M. Hilton in the Salt Lake Temple.
Lynn and Nancy have completed four LDS Senior Missions together
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