Comments: Bio of President and Sister Houghton when he was called to preside over the Indonesia Jakarta Mission:
Robert W. Houghton, 49, Emmett 2nd Ward, Emmett Idaho Stake; former stake president and counselor, high councilor, stake mission president, branch president, elders quorum president's counselor, and Swiss Temple worker; servied in the Samoa Mission, 1959-61; served with wife in the Singapore Mission, 1986-87; retired U.S. Air Force officer; received bachelor's degree in history from BYU, master of public administration from Auburn Unitversity at Montgomery, Ala.; born in Stafford, Kan., a son of Virgil William and Mabel Edith Riggs Houghton; married Linda Dale Myers, three children. She is former stake Relief Society president's counselor, seminary teacher, Sunday School gospel doctrine teacher, and Swiss Temple worker. Born in Emmett, Idaho, a daughter of Roy Morris and Betty Lou Dowdle Morris Myers. |