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Sarah Stovall Fouts
(April 12, 1921 - October 19, 2008)

SHREVEPORT, LA -- Sarah Stovall Fouts, 87, died on October 19, 2008 after a lengthy illness. Visitation will be held at Osborn Funeral Home on Thursday, October 23, from 5 until 8 p.m. Funeral services will be at 1:00 p.m. Friday in the Chapel of Osborn Funeral Home. Officiating will be Rev. Steve Caraway of Mangum Memorial United Methodist Church. Interment will follow at Forest Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Fouts was born in Sikes, Louisiana to D.M. and Louella Stovall in 1921. She was a long time resident of Shreveport where she graduated from C.E. Byrd High School in 1938. She was the secretary at Atkins Elementary School for twenty-five years. She was a life long member of the United Methodist Church. Over the years she served the Cedar Grove United Methodist Church in numerous capacities including Sunday school teacher, MYF leader, president of the official board, life time member of the WSCS, and delegate to the Annual United Methodist Conference. In the community she volunteered to deliver food for Sister Margaret, was president of the PTA at Atkins Elementary and Linwood Junior High School, and was active in the Fire Fighters' Auxiliary. Mrs. Fouts was in the group of mothers who organized the First March of Dimes in the Shreveport area.

Mrs. Fouts was preceded in death by her husband, J. R. Fouts, Sr.; her son, Eddie Fouts; mother and father, D.M. and Louella Stovall; three sisters, Velda Prince, Maurine McCarty, and Carlotta Ferguson; five brothers, D.M. Stovall, Jr., Samuel Woodrow, Karl Stovall, John Stovall, and Rev. James Stovall.

She is survived by her sister Evelyn Finuf; two sons, James Ray Fouts and wife, Pat of Mandeville; Lonnie Fouts and wife, Jean; two daughters, Sally Cox and husband, James; Evelyn Davis and husband, Joe of San Antonio, Texas; and daughter-in-law Ruth Fouts. She is survived by fifteen grandchildren and twenty-four great-grandchildren. Her legacy lives today in the faces of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Mrs. Fouts' grandchildren. The family wishes to express appreciation to Hospice of San Antonio. The family requests that memorials be made to Mangum Memorial United Methodist Church, the Methodist Children's Home, or the charity of the donor's choice.