Jimmy Carter will be buried alongside his wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter, at their home in Georgia
Former President Jimmy Carter will be laid to rest alongside his late wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter, in the modest Georgia home where they lived for decades.
The Carter Center announced on December 29 that Jimmy, the 39th President of the United States, died on Sunday, December 29, in Plains. He was 100 years old.
Although he attended Rosalyn’s star-studded memorial service in Atlanta in November 2023 and her private funeral in Plains a day later, he spent the year receiving hospice care at home, No outside visitors are allowed. Last November, Carter also fulfilled his last wish and voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
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Even four years after entering the White House, Jimmy and Rosalynn never moved out of the modest home they built in Georgia in 1961.
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The ranch house in their hometown of The Plains, Sumter County, features a pond that Jimmy helped dig and a magnolia tree that Andrew Jackson planted on the White House lawn nearly 200 years ago. transplanted from the buds of a tree.
2018, washington post The two-bedroom home was valued at $167,000 at the time, “less than the value of the Secret Service armored vehicle parked outside,” the report said. Zillow currently estimates the home’s value at about $240,000.
The couple’s headstone will be erected next to a willow tree near the pond. The Carters transferred the property to the National Park Service, which will turn the land into a museum after their deaths.
Jimmy, who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, and Rosalyn, a lifelong mental health and human rights advocate, maintained a modest lifestyle that included flying on commercial flights and regular walks along the town’s main street, Church Street. Jimmy taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains for decades.
talking rolling stones “They built their house in the 1960s and changed almost nothing,” Jason Carter, the couple’s grandson, said in 2011. “They were very excited — and rightly so! — when Dollar They bought clothes there when the General store opened in Plains.
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The former president and first lady shared a fairytale romance that began when they were children – with newborn Rosalyn and three-year-old Jimmy visiting the hospital with their parents.
The former first lady and former president even coined a sweet phrase they share with each other: “ILYTG.”
“‘I love you most.’ That’s what my mom and dad always say, and Rosa and I say the same thing,” the 39th president of the United States told People in 2014. “Now all our kids do the same thing – say ILYTG on the phone or in an email.
The couple had sons John William “Jack”, James Earl “Chip”, Donal Jeffrey “Jeff” and daughter Amy Carter. Among their 4 adult children are 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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