Colleen Johnson Platt, 75, passed peacefully on October 27, 2019, in Lehi, Utah, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. She was born on March 9, 1944, in Buckhannon, West Virginia, to George U. and Betty Ann Phelan Johnson. Raised in California, she graduated from Merced High School, and then went on to receive her bachelor's degree in Humanities from Brigham Young University. While there, she was a member of the Cougarettes drill team, the Folk Dance Team, and performed with the Program Bureau. In an early morning Shakespeare class, she met Jeff Platt. They fell in love and married in 1966. After graduation, they moved to Michigan State where they started a family and received a doctoral degree, moved to London for research, and eventually back to Flagstaff, Arizona, where they raised their three children. Known for her grace and style, Colleen was talented in all things dance, music, sewing, flower arranging, cooking, tole painting, entertaining and in making everything around her beautiful. She made friends easily and her home and heart were always open to stranded tourists, college students, or family members who needed a good meal and a listening ear. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, her church service included dance festival director, Relief Society teacher, youth leader, member missionary, and perpetual choir director. In 2001, she and her husband served a full-time mission in the West Virginia, Charleston Mission. In the words of her beloved brother Rory, Colleen was and is "a perpetually lovely woman, talented and warm with a goddess's capacity to love. She has a desire to make things interesting, orderly, and beautiful, often running long after her body is weary . . . bristles at injustice and is repulsed by things vulgar. She is intelligent, and therefore has a wonderful sense of humor. Holding to her faith and family, she courageously, faithfully, trods through the challenges of life. As far as I can tell, Colleen's only real desire on this earth has been to love and be loved in return. I believe the ripples of her life will resonate in people's lives on through the millennium." She will be greatly missed by her children Roxanne (Tim) Thayne, Rachelle (Morgan) Lynch, RobRoy (Melissa) Platt, and her 13 grandchildren. She is also survived by her siblings Karin, Christine, and Rory. She was preceded in death by her husband and parents. Funeral services will be held Saturday, November 2, 2019, at the Walker-Sanderson Funeral Home at 646 E. 800 N. in Orem, Utah. Family and friends are invited to gather from 9:30-10:30 a.m., with the service beginning at 11:00 a.m. Burial will be at the East Lawn Memorial Hills Cemetery in Provo, Utah. Condolences may be offered to the family online at www.walkersanderson.com