Colleen Kay Hutchins a native of Salt Lake City, Utah

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 was crowned as Brigham Young University

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 Homecoming Queen in 1947. In 1952, she was crowned as Miss America

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She was the sister of basketball player Mel Hutchins

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, the mother of former NBA

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 player and interim head coach of the New Jersey Nets

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, Kiki Vandeweghe, and grandmother of 2008 US Open - Girls Singles winner Coco Vandeweghe

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She resided, until her death, with her husband Ernest Vandeweghe

Ernie Vandeweghe

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 in Indian Wells, California

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. She died on March 24, 2010 in Newport Beach

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, aged 83.

Sources

• Garr, Arnold K.
  Arnold K. Garr
  Arnold Kent Garr is the chair of the department of Church history and Doctrine in the Religious Education Division of Brigham Young University . He was also the lead editor of the Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History....
  
  , Donald Q. Cannon
  Donald Q. Cannon
  Donald Quayle Cannon is a retired professor at Brigham Young University who specializes in Mormon history, particularly early Mormon history and international Mormon history....
  
   and Richard O. Cowan
  Richard O. Cowan
  Richard Olsen Cowan is a historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a professor in the Church History Department of Brigham Young University . He is one of the longest-serving BYU faculty and the longest-serving member of the Church History Department ever.-Biography:Cowan...
  
  ed., Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History, p. 526