Sara "Sally" Fouse Chow

Sara Fouse Chow ("Sally"), passed away on June 7, 2025 at the age of 88. She was born in Blair County, Pennsylvania, to the late Eugene and Mabel Fouse. She lived with her parents and 7 siblings in Martinsburg until the age of 14, when the family moved to Baltimore, Maryland. Sally graduated from Eastern High School, one of Baltimore’s first all-girls public high schools. She went on to earn her BSN nursing degree from the University of Maryland in 1959.

In the summer of 1959, she married her high school sweetheart, Bryant Chow. The couple moved to Piscataway, New Jersey, where Sally worked for the Visiting Nurses Association of Middlesex County.

In 1969, her family moved to Lafayette, Louisiana. After taking time off to raise her children, Sally returned to nursing, working as a staff and education nurse at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. She also served as a clinical lab instructor at the School of Nursing at the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette). A devoted advocate for compassionate care, she played a key role in founding Hospice of Acadiana in 1983, a nonprofit committed to providing end-of-life care regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

After relocating to Mobile, Alabama, Sally continued her work in hospice with Mercy Medical Hospice until retiring in 2000. Sally enjoyed family, reading, gardening, and George Strait.

Sally was preceded in death by her parents, her husband; her brothers Richard and Ronald Fouse; her sister, Jean Lee; one brother-in-law, Everett Lee; and sisters-in-law Jean C. Wong, Deborah S. Fouse.

She is survived by her sons, James (Toni) and Alan (Jill); her grandchildren, Christopher, Mitchell (Shannon), Janie, and Jordan; her brothers, Terry Fouse (Gail) and Robert Fouse; her sisters, Virginia Rein (Theodore) and Jane Langley (Gilbert); a sister-in-law, Betty Fouse; a brother-in-law, Vernon Wong; and many beloved nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, the Sally requested that donations be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

A memorial service is to be scheduled by the family at a later date.