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Allen Hartwell Naea Lindsey

Allen Hartwell Naea "Uku" Lindsey

Year Inducted: 2024

1931-2024

Parker Ranch | Hawaiʻi

Uku Lindsey was born in the Lindsey family house located next to the Hale Kea Arena, at mile post marker 58 in Waimea, Hawaiʻi on September 10, 1931. He is the youngest and fifth child of Albert “Uiha” Lindsey and Daisy Stevens whom they named Allen Hartwell Naea Lindsey. Allen was nicknamed “Uku,” affectionately given to him by his father in reference to a favorite horse of the same name.    

After his schooling at Kamehameha on Oʻahu at the Kapalama Heights Campus, he followed his grandfather’s and father’s passion and became a paniolo. At 17 years young in October of 1948, Uku Lindsey started working for Parker Ranch at the Breaking Pen. Working beside his father, he earned $3.00/day. The work ethic instilled in him was to always complete a task no matter how big or small without complaining. This paniolo work ethic stayed with him throughout the years.   

In 1951 he married into another paniolo family from Waimea. Mary Pacheco, daughter of Joseph Pacheco Sr. and Betsy Mainaaupo. Mary Pacheco Lindsey was his partner in raising four daughters.   

He left the Breaking Pen in late 1951 early 1952, to transfer up to Waikiʻi and work under Daniel Kaniho as his Assistant Foreman. An avid horseman, the Fourth of July Rodeo and Races were Uku Lindsey’s favorite time of year. He spent hours of training (kakele) his race horses after a full day of work. Preparation for this famous holiday event was always a part of the process to fulfill the paniolo dream. Along with the horsemanship, his greatest accomplishments included working the Cow Horse divisions.   

We are all aware of the blessing of living in Hawaiʻi. It means that to support your family a paniolo finds a second job essential. Driving a tour bus for Slim Holt Enterprises on weekends was Uku Lindsey’s solution. In 1988 after a stroke, and a medically mandated retirement meant the end to this paniolo's career. But not the end of Uku Lindsey’s love of the Paniolo Life, which he participated in to the last.