Eva Margarete Zanow

Eva Margarete Zanow, most beloved wife of Nicholas Zanow, passed away peacefully on Friday, March 9, 2007, at the Care Center of HospiceCare of Boulder and Broomfield Counties, due to complications of Multiple Systems Atrophy.

Eva was born on February 7, 1938, in Berlin, Germany, and emigrated to the United States at the age of 21. After her three children were born, Eva became one of only three women in the charter class of the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo, earning her M.D. degree in 1972 and working as a pediatrician in Ohio.

She married Nicholas Zanow in 1984 and they moved to Lafayette upon her retirement in 1997. Eva took up the clarinet as an adult and enjoyed volunteering with her husband at the Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts. All who knew her were touched by her loving and generous spirit.

She is survived by her loving family: her husband, Nicholas; her children, Claudia Zornow, Roy Zornow, and Karen Zornow Leiding; her son-in-law, Walter Leiding; her "son-out-law," Donald Blasick; and her sister, Ellen Henking.

A memorial service will be held on Sunday, March 11, at 4:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time, at Atonement Lutheran Church, 685 Inca Parkway, Boulder.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that any tributes be made in Eva's memory to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, the Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts, or HospiceCare of Boulder and Broomfield Counties, where she received extraordinary care during her final illness.