PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Rosalynn Carter will receive her final farewells Wednesday in the same tiny town where she was born and that served as a home base as she and her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, climbed to the White House and spent four decades thereafter as global humanitarians.
Coming from that town of about 600 — then and now — Rosalynn Carter became a global figure whose “effort changed lives,” her grandson said.
But there is a wooden cross that Jimmy Carter fashioned in his woodshop and offering plates that he turned on his lathe.
Church members, who are included in the invitation-only congregation, rarely talk of ”President Carter” or “Mrs.
Her hearse will pass Plains Methodist Church where she married young Navy Lt. Jimmy Carter in 1946.
Persons:
— Rosalynn Carter, Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, ”, Jason Carter, Jimmy Carter's, Rosalynn, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Carter ”, Mrs, Carter, Mr, Jimmy ”
Organizations:
White, Maranatha Baptist Church, The Carter Center, Glenn Memorial Church, Maranatha, Methodist, Secret Service
Locations:
Ga, Plains, Americus, Atlanta, America, U.S, Methodist Church, American