She was the founder of the Organização de Pioneiras Sociais (Organization of Social Pioneers), which carried out charity works in Minas Gerais, including the founding of schools and daycares in the countryside, and distribution of clothing, food, wheelchairs and mechanical devices for the physically disabled.

Sarah Luísa Gomes de Sousa Lemos was born into a family from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais; she was the daughter of federal deputy Jaime Gomes de Sousa Lemos and his wife, Maria Luísa Negrão.

[4] After Juscelino's death, she lived on his pension in a rented apartment in Brasília, where she died of cardiac arrest at the age of 87.

Specializing in the treatment of polytrauma patients, it has units in seven Brazilian capitals: Fortaleza, Macapá, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, São Luís, Rio de Janeiro, Belém and Salvador.

She was played by Marília Pêra and Débora Falabella (young Sarah) in the 2006 miniseries JK, aired on Rede Globo.