Soo Fouts
Soo Fouts | |
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| Born | 1923 Maui, Hawaii |
| Died | February 9, 2016 Deerfield, Illinois |
| NSA member | USA 1976 - 1986 |
| ABM | Americas 1986 - 1993 |
Eleanor Moon "Soo" Fouts (1923 - February 9, 2016) was an American Bahá’í who served as an Auxiliary Board member and member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States.
Background[edit]
Fouts was born in Hawaii to a family of Korean descent. She attended Bahá’í children's classes and declared at the age of seventeen. She married Leroy Fouts at the age of twenty and they later pioneered to China.
Upon returning to the United States Fouts served on various Teaching Committees and was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly in 1976. In 1985 she presented the Peace Statement from the Universal House of Justice to President Ronald Reagan, along with a porcelain plate.[1] She served on the National Assembly until being appointed as an Auxiliary Board member in 1986 and served as a Board member until 1993.
She suffered a stroke in January 2016, and passed away the following month.
