Rosalynn Carters funeral held in Plains, Georgia, where she and her husband were born

Jimmy Carter’s closest political adviser and a political force in her own right, she advocated for better mental health care and underappreciated caregivers in millions of U.S. households. Traveling overseas, she fought disease, famine, and the abuse of women and girls. Coming from that town of about 600 — then and now — Rosalynn Carter changed lives across America and the developing world, her grandson said. His research was highly publicized in the 2012 presidential election between then-incumbent President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

After graduating from McIntosh High School in Peachtree City, Georgia, he enrolled at West Georgia University in 2005, according to The Citizen. Jeremy stayed mostly out of the spotlight until his young life was cut short at age 28. He died suddenly from a heart attack in front of his mother on Dec. 20, 2015. Jason followed his grandfather Jimmy and his father Jack’s footsteps into politics. In a May 2010 special election, Jason was elected to the Georgia Senate, ABC News reported, and he served as a state senator until 2015.

“We are all juggling a lot lately. But yesterday my wife and I got to juggle for my grandparents. They loved it,” James captioned a video on Twitter. James studied at Georgia State University, where he earned a degree in public budgeting and finance, according to Netroots Nation. After publishing the 47% video, he founded his own Atlanta-based research firm specializing in politics. In 2005, Jason became a partner at Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, where he’s since worked on high-profile voting rights cases and represented the National Football League Players Association. Amy later went through a divorce, and remarried John Joseph “Jay” Kelly in 2007. Jack and Langford resided in Calhoun, Georgia, until 1981, when their family moved to Chicago.

Rosalynn Carter’s intimate funeral is held in the town where she and her husband were born

The family has kept a low profile, but Hugo was on hand to celebrate grandfather Jimmy’s 85th birthday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, according to the Boston Globe. He also attended a picnic event hosted by The Elders, a global leadership organization, with his father and his uncle Jeremy in Istanbul on Oct. 31, 2009, to raise awareness for climate change. Born April 24, 1991, in Georgia, James “Jamie” Carlton Carter is the youngest child of Jeff and Annette Carter. Jamie and his future wife, Anna, began dating in 2017, and welcomed their daughter, Rayna Rose, on March 20, 2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the couple eloped on Oct. 22, 2021, and held a formal ceremony, officiated by the groom’s brother Josh, exactly one year later, per their wedding site.

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“My mother was the glue that held our family together through the ups and downs and thicks and thins of our family’s politics,” Chip Carter said. ATLANTA (AP) — Rosalynn Carter was remembered Tuesday as a former U.S. first lady who leveraged her fierce intellect and political power to put her deep Christian faith into action by always helping others, especially those who needed it most. At the service, the mourning came with affectionate stories of her life and plenty of laughter. Jack’s son Jason followed in his family’s footsteps and went into politics. He and his wife, Kate Carter, welcomed sons Henry and Thomas in 2006 and 2008, respectively. Jimmy and Rosalynn’s daughter, Amy, was the only one of their children to be born in their home state of Georgia on October 19, 1967, though she some of her childhood growing up in the White House.

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Rosalynn Carter will be buried in a plot she will one day share with her husband of 77 years. The former president, now 99, left home hospice care to attend Tuesday’s memorial, where two other presidents and all the living first ladies joined the extended Carter family before Wednesday’s more intimate hometown funeral. She will be buried in a plot she will one day share with her husband of 77 years. The former president, now 99, left home hospice care to attend Tuesday’s memorial, where two other presidents and all the living first ladies joined the extended Carter family, as well as Wednesday’s more intimate hometown funeral. Mourners viewed her casket john joseph kelly amy carter at her husband’s presidential library, steps from The Carter Center they co-founded after leaving the White House. Then she was honored at a service filled with the music of a symphony chorus, a majestic pipe organ and fellow Habitat for Humanity ambassadors Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood.

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PLAINS, Ga. — Rosalynn Carter received her final farewells Wednesday in the same tiny town where she and Jimmy Carter were born, forever their home base as they climbed to the White House and traveled the world for humanitarian causes. At the service, the mourning came with affectionate stories of life with Rosalynn Carter and some laughs. Country music stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, family friends of the Carters and their successors as Habitat for Humanity ambassadors, performed a rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine” toward the end of the service. Family members described how Rosalynn Carter went from growing up in a small town where she had never spoken to a group larger than her Sunday school class to being a global figure who visited more than 120 countries.

In his youth, Jack was raised in Plains, Georgia, and worked in the family’s peanut farm warehouse before going to college. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology, then Emory University, followed by Georgia Southwestern University. He then joined the Navy, from which he was discharged for smoking marijuana in 1976, the Telegraph reported. The Carter family attended Rosalynn’s memorial service in Atlanta on Nov. 28, 2023.

1. So, just why were so many, including the former president, dressed in leis?
2. Jimmy announced his grandson’s death the next morning during his Sunday school sermon.
3. Sarah Rosemary Carter, daughter of Jack Carter and Judy Langford, was born on Dec. 19, 1978.
4. Many family members, including the former president, wore leis to celebrate how much Rosalynn Carter loved living in Hawaii during the couple’s Navy years and learning to hula dance while her husband was stationed there.
5. PLAINS, Ga. — Rosalynn Carter received her final farewells Wednesday in the same tiny town where she and Jimmy Carter were born, forever their home base as they climbed to the White House and traveled the world for humanitarian causes.
6. Then she was honored at a service filled with the music of a symphony chorus, a majestic pipe organ, and fellow Habitat for Humanity ambassadors Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood.

Vernita Sampson, a school bus driver and Plains native, drove a group of local high school students, all wearing Future Farmer of America jackets, to downtown Plains to pay tribute to the former first lady and soak up the history of the day. It will return, finally, to what locals call “the Carter compound,” property that includes their one-story ranch house, the pond where she fished and security outposts for the Secret Service agents who protected her for 47 years. Vernita Sampson, a school bus driver and Plains native, drove a group of area high school students, all wearing Future Farmer of America jackets, to downtown Plains to pay tribute to the former first lady and soak up the history of the day. Jimmy Carter, who is 10 months into home hospice care, watched from his wheelchair, reclining and covered by a blanket featuring his wife’s face.

During the ceremony, Jack, Chip, Jeff and Amy sweetly consoled their grieving father. “We have a big family now. We have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, 38 of us in all,” he said. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in their hometown of Plains, Ga. in 2017. There, she will be buried in view of the front porch of her longtime home, where her husband still lives. From there, the motorcade snaked through the commercial district where Rosalynn served as Jimmy’s partner in the peanut business and the old train depot from where she helped run his 1976 presidential campaign. It then passed by the old high school where Rosalynn was a valedictorian during World War II and the Plains Baptist Church, where she and the former president made a name for themselves arguing for racial integration.

It all stems from Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s time in the “Aloha State” early in his naval career. Jimmy’s son Jack Carter later married Elizabeth, making Jack her stepfather and Jimmy her step-grandfather. Amy Lynn Carter and James Gregory Wentzel welcomed their son, Hugo James, on July 29, 1999.