[1] 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.
In 1945 she married George Van Lemmon in Raleigh, North Carolina; they were later sealed in the Arizona Temple.
One daughter, Celia "Susie" Lemmon, died of polio in 1952 at the age of four.
She was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery next to her husband and daughter.