"Whenever she goes in these conferences and speaks, people enjoy listening to her," President Hinckley said in a Church News interview near the end of the trip. "She has a quiet kind of folksy way of saying things in an informal tone and speaks of the problems of the people in a way that they believe that she's been through what they're experiencing. They love to hear her. It has been a wonderful thing to see the response to her when she speaks."

After he was sustained to the Twelve, President Hinckley wrote in a memo to Elder Mark E. Petersen: "I have been blessed with a great wife. You know her. She was a bright and capable girl when she was growing up and has done a great service in the church and elsewhere, having served as ward Primary president, MIA president and in the Relief Society presidency over a number of years. No one ever had a better companion."

In February 1996, she received the Exemplary Womanhood Award from Brigham Young University. She received the Pioneer Heritage Award in July 1997 and the Distinguished Service to Humanity Award in April 1998. She also received the Utah Heritage Award from the Utah-California Women later that year.

In April 2001, she and her family were honored by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, and a week later she and her husband received honorary doctorates from Utah Valley State College.

In April 2003, BYU established the Marjorie Pay Hinckley Chair in Social Work and Social Sciences. The chair was established to help the school focus on the family through research and education, to expand learning by lectures, to increase community involvement in family issues and to provide service.

In tribute to his wife on Sunday, President Hinckley said of her, "We've walked together, side by side, all these many years, co-equals and companions through storm and sunshine."

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Material taken from a Church News interview, May 23, 1964; Deseret News files; the June 1995 Ensign; the April 1997 New Era; and Church News files.