Career
She had previously served on the general board of the Primary from 1971 to 1974. In the general presidency, she was the second counselor to Naomi M. Shumway from 1974 to 1977 and the first counselor from 1977 to 1980. Colleen Bushman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
She was raised in Salt Lake City and later Albuquerque, New Mexico during her teenage years.
They were the parents of four children. One daughter, Celia "Susie" Lemmon, died of polio in 1952 at the age of four.
Lemmon died at Salt Lake City, Utah.
