Former President Jimmy Carter will emerge from hospice care to join some of his successors and every living presidential spouse on Tuesday to honor Rosalynn Carter, his wife and partner of more than three-quarters of a century and the nation’s first lady from 1977 to 1981, the Carter Center said.
President Biden, former President Bill Clinton and all five living first ladies will attend as well.
Frail but alert and smiling, the two made their last public appearance together in September when they were driven around the Plains Peanut Festival.
Born at her family’s house in Plains, the tiny town where she would live most of her life, Eleanor Rosalynn Smith as a young girl might have been surprised at the star-studded turnout expected to salute her at the end.
Her father drove a school bus, owned an auto repair shop and ran a farm, while her mother sold milk from their one cow, worked in the school lunchroom and later joined the post office.
Persons:
Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, Carter, President Biden, Bill Clinton, Eleanor Rosalynn Smith
Organizations:
Carter, Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church, Emory University, President
Locations:
Plains , Ga, Atlanta, Plains