STORIES AND ARTICLES ABOUT PRESIDENT HINCKLEY AND HIS FUNERAL...

Here is yet another article on President Hinckley and his life. Also there are articles covering his funeral that i found on abc4's website (channel 4)

you can also find other video's, articles etc. on the website and on the other websites of the local tv news stations websites

anyhow here is the article....

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - We have spent a whole week now looking back at the life of LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley and his many accomplishments. Perhaps his true legacy lies in the way he loved ordinary people, and was a genuinely humble person -- who could still make great things happen.

LDS Church members had an inspiring example of humility in Hinckley ... a man willing to do the hard work himself and at the same time, possessing such talents, abilities and vision.

"He was the best architect I ever saw, the best financial man I ever knew,” said Henry B. Eyring, Second Counselor in the First Presidency. “He was the best public relations man I've ever seen."

He more than doubled the number of temples worldwide, building more of them smaller -- but no less beautiful -- so more people would have access to them. He also guided the planning of the downtown Salt Lake City LDS Conference Center. An engineering marvel, it bears a personal contribution from Hinckley ... the pulpit crafted from a walnut tree he grew in his own backyard.

He had a great desire to provide money for young people in less-developed countries, to help them break out of poverty – and the Perpetual Education Fund was born. "The Perpetual Education Fund itself is an example of his belief that if you'll just give a young person a chance and give them the responsibility to repay the loan, that very expectation will lift them and they will do surprising things," Eyring said.

Anytime a population was in crisis ... for instance, after the disastrous tsunami in Indonesia ... President Hinckley mobilized a humanitarian relief effort, spearheading the donation of $600 million to people regardless of their faith during his presidency. But he was also willing to give the shirt off his own back, or the lunch out of his own trunk. "I remember as a child stopping on the side of the road to help a mother and her children with a car that had broken down,” said Hinckley’s daughter Kathleen H. Walker. “And after he fixed the car he took the lunch basket out of the trunk of the car and handed it to them and I'll never forget seeing that lunch basket go from our car to theirs and thinking 'Now what?'"

Well before Hinckley became a general authority, his children say he recognized the worth of each individual, no matter their race or ethnic background. "I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ,” Hinckley said.

Hinckley traveled the world frequently, and was honored often by world leaders ... on his 94th birthday he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. Hinckley married a true life partner in his wife Marjorie, and her death several years ago affected him greatly.

"I think watching my father these last few years be alone, we've realized the tremendous void that has been in his life without my mother walking by his side,” said his daughter Jane H. Dudley.

He made friends to last a lifetime and beyond, including many future leaders of the LDS church. "In the things that so many of us are trying to do, he was the exemplar," Eyring said.

"I shall miss him and the testimony he bore more than I can say," said Thomas S. Monson, First Counselor of the First Presidency.

Of all the leaders the LDS Church has had, Gordon B. Hinckley lived the longest and served as president the longest.