Rosalynn Carter funeral in the small village where she and Jimmy Carter were born.
This community served as their home base throughout their ascent to the White House and their global humanitarian travels, with her ailing husband serving as a mute witness.
At Plains’ Maranatha Baptist Church, where she and her husband spent decades greeting guests and where a wooden cross Jimmy Carter fashioned in his woodshop is on display, the former first lady, who passed away on November 19 at the age of 96, held a private burial.
Past tributes took place in Atlanta and the neighboring city of Americus. For the last moment of his life, the former president was present in a wheelchair.
Maranatha In his introductory remarks, Pastor Tony Lowden paid homage to “the life and legacy of the greatest first lady.”
He informed the assembly that Rosalynn Carter was more than “just the first lady of the White House.” “She provided services to all countries worldwide.”
Rosalynn Words
Speaking to the mourners in what he thought was Rosalynn Carter’s voice, the priest described her competitive spirit and said, “She would say to you today, ‘don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free.'”
Here Jimmy attempted to defeat me. I arrived here first. I was the prize winner. Inform him that I’m waiting for him and that I defeated him.
However, Lowden went on, “she would implore, ‘don’t stop. The world’s homeless population is far too large.
Too many people still do not have equal rights. She would advise you to keep going.
Turn into that moral woman. Men, please pay attention and make place for the honorable woman.
One day, she will be buried beside her 77-year husband in a site they both own. The now 99-year-old former president stepped out of home hospice care on Tuesday to attend the more private hometown burial on Wednesday, where two more presidents and all of the living first women joined the Carter family.
A group of local high school kids, all sporting Future Farmer of America jackets, were driven to downtown Plains by Vernita Sampson, a school bus driver and native of Plains, to honor the former first lady and take in the history.
“They weren’t this high standard where they were up here and, you know, we’re all down there,” 58-year-old Sampson said of the folks she related to.
Remembering Rosalynn Carter
A few jokes and heartfelt tales of Rosalynn Carter’s life were interspersed with the grief during the event.
Son Jack Carter remarked, “It occurs to me that dad got used to mom disagreeing with him because she was really good at it.
“And she became a partner in the true sense of the word, where they had equal footing.”
