The recent death and funeral of Marjorie Pay Hinckley occasioned many heartfelt tributes that praised not only the personal qualities for which she was valued, but also the qualities that Mormonism currently values, and subtly encourages, for all of its women. If David O. McKay and Emma Rae Riggs McKay were models of “eternal sweethearts” and “romance in marriage,” the Hinckley marriage, as portrayed in the media, modeled an effective partnership of somewhat overlapping but largely separate spheres. Other sources to show the social representations of desired womanhood will be addresses by members of the First Presidency to the Young Women and Relief Society in their annual broadcasts and obituaries of Mormon women printed for a four-week period shortly after Sister Hinckley’s funeral

Lavina Fielding Anderson, Marina Capella