July 30, 1958 – July 2, 2025

Zoe Lindauer died unexpectedly at home the evening of July 2, 2025, at 66 years old. Zoe has left behind a spirit of generosity, vivacity, graciousness rooted in her experience growing up with little, free loving wildness, and openness that let her reach out to others without hesitation. Her big warm laugh and smile will be greatly missed.
Zoe always marched to the beat of her own drummer throughout a lifetime as a mother, dancer and choreographer, dance teacher, pilot truck business owner, flagger, historian, community leader, volunteer, canner, seamstress, dog breeder, interior designer, and loved mother, grandmother, wife, sister and friend.
Zoe was born at Porter Memorial Hospital in Littleton, Colorado to Rosa Lee Enlow (Lightsey) and John Wilson Enlow on July 30,1958. Zoe was the youngest of two, with one older sister, Jan Adel Enlow. The Enlow family lived in Riverside Acres until 1964, then moved to Grand Junction, then the Grand Valley, and in 1967 they settled into Johnstown, Colorado. Zoe graduated in 1976 from Roosevelt High School in Johnstown, then attended UNC in Greeley on a Performing Arts Scholarship, emphasis in Modern Dance.
Zoe moved back to Grand Valley in 1977 where she fell in love with childhood friend Gerald Lindauer and began flagging. Zoe married Gerald on June 28, 1980 and they began their life on Wallace Creek. She had four sons, Chisum in 1982, a boy who died at birth in 1985, Dylan in 1986 and Ethan in 1988. She gave everything she had to her sons, going to every field trip, volunteering, being involved with the school board including a bond issue to build the new High School, attended PTA meetings, and told them as matter of fact they were going to college rather than ever posing it as a question, which resulted in her sons being the first in her direct family line to go to and complete college. She also involved them all in 4-H, which helped her sons pay for college, and enabled Dylan and Ethan to both win state archery.
Zoe was an active member of the community. She was involved in Grand Valley Days from 1980 to 1996, serving many years as secretary and between 1991 and 1996 she was president. Zoe had a passion for the talent show. Some years she led a dance troupe for it, and she organized to match the theme that year for Grand Valley Days. It often included skits that showed off local or American history, and she organized and approved all entrants.
Zoe won a blue ribbon most every year she entered the Garfield County Fair, often for her famous pickles, but also for jelly, jams, and quilting.
Zoe also had a love of history and was part of the GV Historical Society, advocated for others to understand American and local history, such as the civil war and how the Grand Valley was settled. She loved family history and studied extensively the family tree and ancestry, and reconnected lost branches of the family. She loved documentaries, was a life long learner, and loved reading.
She started her own pilot truck business in 2008 named Blue Moon Pilot Truck Service, Inc. named after the fact she was born on a blue moon. She loved driving around the US for about 10 years in her modified F-350, and made quick friends on the radio with her outgoing gregarious personality. She started her pilot truck business to buy a fireplace for her beloved log house with a blue roof, which she did.
Zoe’s free and entrepreneurial spirit also led her to start Cedarwind Aussies, where she and Gerald raised and bred Australian Shepherds, who today are still making excellent cowdogs for the local community. Zoe had a knack for interacting well with animals, and was very fond of dogs, cats, ravens, crows, owls, and big cats.
Zoe loved her plants and garden, growing fresh tomatoes, radishes, pumpkins, gourds, and her beloved green onions every year. She also grew many other crops from potatoes to gooseberries. She loved her trees, especially the pine trees and cottonwood trees, and took care of many. Zoe and Gerald wanted to make an oasis in the middle of the desert and they did that, with lilacs, rosebushes, and even a flowering tree, as well as her yearly flower beds.
Zoe was also generous, offering her home, money and advice to countless people who needed it and bettered their lives for it. She would self start and organize as a matter of natural character, not only the things mentioned here but countless more. Everything from a neighborhood emergency phone list to getting the family to make kraut burgers for those who had suffered hardship or loss.
After the tragic loss of her son Ethan in 2019, Zoe’s long time happiness and exuberance for life greatly diminished. During June of 2021 she was diagnosed with MAC disease also known as Lady Windermere syndrome which affects the lungs and gave her a persistent cough. She was resilient, making jokes even while she’d cough and she’d apologize for coughing to others. The disease and grief wore on her with each year, and each year she lost more ground, especially in spring, the time of year Ethan passed. A life of warmth and light that was full of love and family ended tragically.
Zoe is survived by countless family, including her Husband of 45 years, Gerald O Lindauer; sister Jan A Enlow, sons Chisum Lindauer and Dylan Lindauer; daughter-in-law Lyndsey Lindauer; grandchildren Asher Lindauer, Tucker Lindauer and Raimey Lindauer. Zoe was well loved by countless others, she was committed to her family, her community, and always had a laugh and smile for anyone. Her legacy will continue to thrive through the many lives she touched.
Her memorial service will be held Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 2pm at the Battlement Mesa Firehouse at 24 Stone Quarry Rd #9566, Parachute, CO 81635. Food and refreshments will follow, after which there will be a walk or short drive to the cemetery for her burial service.
In lieu of flowers, we encourage donations to plant trees in Zoe Lindauer’s memory on Legacy.com or donate to the Grand Valley Historical Society: historicschool@outlook.com, PO BOX 363, Parachute CO 81635