I am so blessed to have joined the Hamilton Family and got to know Matt's Grandmother Hamilton. When I met her it had felt as if I belonged in the family and had been there for years. I loved her sincere hugs, looking forward to our birthday calls where she would play the piano and sing for us each birthday. She always loved it when we stopped by. She had such a warm heart and welcoming spirit. I loved the way she loved Grandpa Hamilton before he had passed (a little over a year ago). Such a beautiful love they had for each other. She loved to serve her community and make baby blankets and croxheted little infant shoes. She made a beautiful blanket for Autumn. She had made a few other things for us I will always cherish. I loved her obituary written by one of her 7 children.
Today, Sept. 3, 2010, the heart of our family quietly departed this life to rejoin its head, from whom, due to his death on May 3, 2009, she was briefly separated for the only time during their marriage of 69 years.
Mother died while in the loving care of her five daughters in Logan, Utah, of causes incident to a brief final illness. She was happily and gratefully able to live independently until the last few weeks of her mortal life in a home in Twin Falls which she very much cherished and loved.
Nina Madora Kinghorn was born Jan. 14, 1918, to Thomas Brian and Laura Eakle Kinghorn in Menan, the third of four siblings. Her childhood years were spent in Sugar City, where her father was a station agent and telegrapher for the Union Pacific Railroad. Mother studied piano beginning at an early age. Many perform music. She owned it.
She became acquainted with our father in her high school years, but was primarily interested in pursuing musical training to become a concert pianist. While she was engaged in that training in Baltimore, she experienced one of the defining moments of her life when she decided that a marriage to Lloyd A. Hamilton was more important to her than the life of a performing artist. Our father, our family, and our community have been immeasurably blessed by that decision.
Mother and Dad were married April 2, 1941, in the Salt Lake City Temple. For a brief time before and subsequent to their marriage, Mother sang in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Not long after that, they returned to Sugar City to work in the family sheep business. In 1946, Dad began selling insurance, and in 1955, after two years in Preston, they moved to Twin Falls, where they established the Lloyd Hamilton Insurance Agency, which they sold in 1981. For the first few years in Twin Falls, Mother's piano teaching was a major help to the sustenance of our family while Dad was getting the insurance business established. Mother continued teaching for many years, and many have experienced her saintly influence.
Like our father, Mother always did her utmost to love and serve her family, her fellow men and our God. For a time, while all seven children were at home, she baked a dozen loaves of bread twice a week. Our clothing was always neat, clean, and impeccably ironed, our home always nearly spotless. She quietly went about doing good whenever and wherever she saw a need. Perhaps no one will ever know of all the meals she took to shut-ins, or families where illness or death had visited. And she always served faithfully and well in whatever she was asked to do in the church.
She was at Dad's side as the matron of the Boise Temple, and on missions to the Atlanta Temple, India, and Sri Lanka. While Dad was as involved as he was in his business, the community and his years as a stake president in the church, our home life, due to Mother's influence, was always a haven of love, peace, and joy.
In addition to being the wonderful mother she was to all of us, she was a superb hostess to some of the most distinguished leadership of the church who stayed in our home while visiting for stake conferences. Ezra Taft Benson, Boyd K. Packer, Thomas S. Monson, Joseph Fielding Smith, Spencer W. Kimball, Gordon B. Hinckley, and others experienced her hospitality and dined at her table.
Both Dad and Mother loved the temples and everything for which they stand. It was a blessing in their lives when the temple was built in Twin Falls, because their health had declined to the point where traveling to Boise was difficult.
Dad faithfully participated until his death, and Mother was at the temple regularly, right up to a few days before her final illness.
The beauty of her music and her life, now stilled from among us, will be sorely missed. But her exemplary goodness and the memories with which we are blessed will be eternally treasured.
Paraphrasing one of the great men of our country's history, we would observe, "All we are or ever hope to be, we owe our angel mother."
Mother was preceded in death by her parents, all her siblings, and her husband. Survivors include seven children: Sylvia Lynne Brown (Ross), Jeanne Nielson, Barry K. (Jacque), David L. (Bonnie), Camille Holladay (Lance), Lesli Bucher (Frank) and Melanie Hamilton (Robyn); 32 grandchildren, and 48 great-grandchildren. We thank Allen Mortuary in Logan, Utah, and White Mortuary for their kindly and caring service to our Mother.
The service, conducted by White Mortuary and under the direction of Bishop Adam Hodges, will be held at the Twin Falls Stake Center, adjacent to the temple on Eastland Drive at 11 a.m. Friday. Visitation for family and friends will begin at 9:30 a.m. Interment will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Sugar City Cemetery. Services are under the direction of White Mortuary, Chapel by the Park, Twin Falls.
I feel so happy to know I was able to visit her 1 week before she had a heart attack followed by mini strokes. She was able to meet Autumn and I was able to be with her and enjoy those warm hugs she always gave. We love her so much and will always be in our hearts! Here is her obituary. It is written beautifully about her.
Today, Sept. 3, 2010, the heart of our family quietly departed this life to rejoin its head, from whom, due to his death on May 3, 2009, she was briefly separated for the only time during their marriage of 69 years.
Mother died while in the loving care of her five daughters in Logan, Utah, of causes incident to a brief final illness. She was happily and gratefully able to live independently until the last few weeks of her mortal life in a home in Twin Falls which she very much cherished and loved.
Nina Madora Kinghorn was born Jan. 14, 1918, to Thomas Brian and Laura Eakle Kinghorn in Menan, the third of four siblings. Her childhood years were spent in Sugar City, where her father was a station agent and telegrapher for the Union Pacific Railroad. Mother studied piano beginning at an early age. Many perform music. She owned it.
She became acquainted with our father in her high school years, but was primarily interested in pursuing musical training to become a concert pianist. While she was engaged in that training in Baltimore, she experienced one of the defining moments of her life when she decided that a marriage to Lloyd A. Hamilton was more important to her than the life of a performing artist. Our father, our family, and our community have been immeasurably blessed by that decision.
Mother and Dad were married April 2, 1941, in the Salt Lake City Temple. For a brief time before and subsequent to their marriage, Mother sang in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Not long after that, they returned to Sugar City to work in the family sheep business. In 1946, Dad began selling insurance, and in 1955, after two years in Preston, they moved to Twin Falls, where they established the Lloyd Hamilton Insurance Agency, which they sold in 1981. For the first few years in Twin Falls, Mother's piano teaching was a major help to the sustenance of our family while Dad was getting the insurance business established. Mother continued teaching for many years, and many have experienced her saintly influence.
Like our father, Mother always did her utmost to love and serve her family, her fellow men and our God. For a time, while all seven children were at home, she baked a dozen loaves of bread twice a week. Our clothing was always neat, clean, and impeccably ironed, our home always nearly spotless. She quietly went about doing good whenever and wherever she saw a need. Perhaps no one will ever know of all the meals she took to shut-ins, or families where illness or death had visited. And she always served faithfully and well in whatever she was asked to do in the church.
She was at Dad's side as the matron of the Boise Temple, and on missions to the Atlanta Temple, India, and Sri Lanka. While Dad was as involved as he was in his business, the community and his years as a stake president in the church, our home life, due to Mother's influence, was always a haven of love, peace, and joy.
In addition to being the wonderful mother she was to all of us, she was a superb hostess to some of the most distinguished leadership of the church who stayed in our home while visiting for stake conferences. Ezra Taft Benson, Boyd K. Packer, Thomas S. Monson, Joseph Fielding Smith, Spencer W. Kimball, Gordon B. Hinckley, and others experienced her hospitality and dined at her table.
Both Dad and Mother loved the temples and everything for which they stand. It was a blessing in their lives when the temple was built in Twin Falls, because their health had declined to the point where traveling to Boise was difficult.
Dad faithfully participated until his death, and Mother was at the temple regularly, right up to a few days before her final illness.
The beauty of her music and her life, now stilled from among us, will be sorely missed. But her exemplary goodness and the memories with which we are blessed will be eternally treasured.
Paraphrasing one of the great men of our country's history, we would observe, "All we are or ever hope to be, we owe our angel mother."
Mother was preceded in death by her parents, all her siblings, and her husband. Survivors include seven children: Sylvia Lynne Brown (Ross), Jeanne Nielson, Barry K. (Jacque), David L. (Bonnie), Camille Holladay (Lance), Lesli Bucher (Frank) and Melanie Hamilton (Robyn); 32 grandchildren, and 48 great-grandchildren. We thank Allen Mortuary in Logan, Utah, and White Mortuary for their kindly and caring service to our Mother.
The service, conducted by White Mortuary and under the direction of Bishop Adam Hodges, will be held at the Twin Falls Stake Center, adjacent to the temple on Eastland Drive at 11 a.m. Friday. Visitation for family and friends will begin at 9:30 a.m. Interment will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Sugar City Cemetery. Services are under the direction of White Mortuary, Chapel by the Park, Twin Falls.
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