Harold G. Hillam

Harold Hillam with Sunday School Time Capsule

Harold Gordon Hillam (September 1, 1934 – March 27, 2012) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1990 until his death. Hillam was the fifteenth general president of the LDS Church's Sunday School organization from 1995 to 2000 and was president of the Boise Idaho Temple from 2005 to 2008.

Hillam was born in Sugar City, Idaho. As a young man, he was a LDS Church missionary in Brazil. Hillam received a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University.^[1] Hillam was trained as a dentist and an orthodontist at Northwestern University.

In 1981, Hillam was asked to become president of the LDS Church's Portugal Lisbon Mission. In 1990, he became a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy, and in 1991 he was transferred to the First Quorum of the Seventy. Hillam became a member of the seven-man Presidency of the Seventy in 1995; while in this position, Hillam was general president of the Sunday School organization. On December 8, 1999, the eve of the 150th commemoration of the founding of the Sunday School, Hillam sealed the third Sunday School time capsule in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building; the capsule will be opened in 2049.

Hillam was released from the Presidency of the Seventy and as general Sunday School president in 2000, but continued as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy until 2005, when he was granted general authority emeritus status and became president of the Boise Idaho Temple.^[2] He was released as temple president in 2008 and was succeeded by Wenden W. Waite.

Hillam was married to Carol Rasmussen and they are the parents of seven children. He died at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah at age 77.^[1]

Publications and sermons

• "What Matters Most", New Era, Apr 2001
• "Not for the Body", Ensign, Oct. 2001
• "Strength in Adversity", BYU Speeches, 1996-06-26
• “Sunday School: Oil for Our Lamps”, Ensign, Aug. 1999, 15
• "Friend to Friend", Friend, May 1992

General Conference sermons

• "The Worth of Souls", April 2005
• "Future Leaders", April 2000
• "Teachers, the Timeless Key", October 1997
• "Sacrifice in the Service", October 1995
• "No More Strangers and Foreigners", October 1990
• "An Example of What Welfare Services Can Do", April 1980

Notes

References

• “Elder Harold G. Hillam of the Seventy,” Ensign, May 1990, p. 104
• "Center Stage: Sunday School time capsule,", Church News, Sep. 4, 1999
• "Sunday School seals latest time capsule," Church News, Dec. 11, 1999

External links

• Harold G. Hillam at Find a Grave