Pat said she grew up on a piano bench. She played for weekday Primary when she was ten and became ward organist at fourteen. She spent many years as Jr. Sunday School coordinator, Young Women president, and Relief Society president, then was called to the Primary General Board where she served from 1980-1988. ‘Everything I know how to do I learned through my service in the Church,’ Pat explains. However, she did supplement that experience with a BA in Elementary Education from BYU and a Masters of Education from the University of Utah where she taught for nine years in the Preparatory Division of the Music Department.

She has taught private piano since 1962, wrote the Sharing Time page in the Friend magazine for many years, and is the composer and author of five Primary songs, as well as the books Sing Out! Songbook, Sing about Families and Helping Children Compose.

Pat and her husband, G. Robert Graham, live in Salt Lake City and are the parents of six children and twenty perfect grandchildren. They have served a welfare services mission to Detroit, Michigan.