Biography
In 1932, at the age of 50, Green married Bryant S. Hinckley, whose wife Ada Bitner had died in 1930. Gordon B. Hinckley, one of the children of Bryant and Ada, later recalled that he and the other children were upset by their father's decision to remarry, but they eventually came to accept their stepmother: "I don't know that it was easy for her to step into our family, but she did it well. We all respected her. We all loved her".
In 1940, May Hinckley was asked by church president Heber J. Grant to succeed May Anderson and become the third general president of the Primary Association of the church. In her three and one half year tenure, Hinckley introduced a revised curriculum, added a scripture-reading program for leaders and teachers, established a formal scriptural theme for Primary, and selected the official Primary logo, motto and colors. Hinckley was the editor of The Children's Friend while she was Primary president. Her term ended when she unexpectedly died of pneumonia in Salt Lake City, Utah, the day after her 62nd birthday. She was succeeded by Adele C. Howells, her first counselor.
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