Zoe Lillian Timmims

Zoe Lillian Groshart passed into the eternal world peacefully in her sleep.

Zoe was born in Alamosa, Colorado, on March 7, 1934, to Leon Earl Groshart and Oma Lillian Bankston. She was raised in the small farming community of Morgan by her maternal grandparents along with her 2 brothers, Earl and Billy. It was from her grandparents that she learned the value of hard work and community during hard times. She graduated from LaJara High School and started attending nursing school.

It was during a trip home that she first met the soon-to-be love of her life Thomas (Tommy) Timmins. Nursing school took a back seat, and the two eloped to be married in Taos, New Mexico, on July 4, 1954. They built a modest brick home on the Timmins family farm and raised 6 children there.

Throughout her life, she was always looking to serve others. She had a passion for the Boy Scouts of America and was awarded the Silver Beaver for long-term leadership. She was always proud the all 4 of her sons were Eagle Scouts. She loved serving in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, most especially in teaching Primary. Her service reached a pinnacle when she and Tommy served a mission to Baguio Phillipines for 18 months.

Not many years after returning, Tommy died of a sudden heart attack, leaving her to live the next 29 years separated from him. She was an avid gardener and loved canning. She taught each of her children how to cook and always commented how good of cooks they all were.

In 2019, she had to leave her home on the farm and moved to Idaho to live with her youngest son and his wife. She spent her later years playing solitaire and doing picture puzzles and loving her little dog, Tinkerbell. Just a couple of months before her passing, she was still able to sit on the floor and play cards and bragged one day that she could still run outside (although admittedly not far or fast).

Anyone who knew her knew she was a hugger. Many times leaving a restaurant we would be missing her and she was at the table giving the server a hug. Some of her last words were “I don’t want any tears of sadness, only tears of joy or I will come back and haunt you!”

Zoe is preceded in death by her grandparents who raised her, her parents, 2 brothers, her husband Thomas Howard, son Howard David, granddaughter Tiffany, and great granddaughter Grace. She leaves 5 children, Thomas Douglas, Helen Elaine, Holly Roxianne Weston (Steven), Billy Randall (Rhonda), daughter in law Debra, and Donald Lewis (Annette), 21 grandchildren and 38 great grandchildren.