What did Plains, Georgia, mean to Jimmy Carter?
Former President Jimmy Carter will be laid to rest in his hometown of Plains, Georgia on Thursday night. He will be buried next to his wife, Rosalynn Carter, outside the home they lived in for decades ...
Remembering the life and legacy of a boy from Plains who became President of the United States
Think of Jimmy Carter’s life as a book. Appropriate, given he was a prolific writer. And yesterday was the last paragraph in ...
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Bill Eggert | The man from Plains, Ga.
The man from Plains, Georgia, was honored with a funeral service. We can all take a lesson from his fine example. “He’s ...
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In Carter’s Hometown, a Long Vigil Ends With Sorrow, but Also Uplift
Plains, Ga., had been bracing for the inevitable through the former president’s ailments and nearly two years of hospice care. Still, his death, at 100, “doesn’t seem real.” By Rick Rojas ...
Jimmy And Rosalynn Carter Receive Posthumous Honor That Is A Nod To Their Lifelong Dedication To Plains, Georgia
"From the Plains Peanut Festival to the Governor’s Mansion, to the White House—and to communities around the globe—they remained grounded and humble, and Plains always remained home in their hearts.” ...
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Plains community, visitors react to President Jimmy Carter's death
PLAINS, Ga. − From Dollar General to the local high school, Americans had words of admiration in Jimmy Carter's hometown for a local hero who became president and leader of the free world and ...
Former President Jimmy Carter arrives in Plains, Georgia one last time
Jimmy Carter, the first former American president to live to 100, arrived back in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. Before the trip home, the former president was memorialized at Washington National Ca ...
How fire departments in South Georgia came together to help with Jimmy Carter’s services
Over the last two weeks, resources from across the state and nation flowed into Sumter County for the state funeral of former ...
Jimmy Carter returns to Plains, is honored at Maranatha Baptist Church before burial
Mattie Wright, a 73-year-old Albany resident, visited Plains Thursday to honor the late president’s push for racial equality ...
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Jimmy Carter returns to Plains, Georgia, for final burial
Jimmy Carter returned to Georgia for the last time Thursday after ... The country’s 39th president will be buried in his beloved hometown of Plains, next to Rosalynn Carter, his wife of 77 ...
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Quiet reflections on a homegrown president from the folks in Plains
PLAINS, Ga. — To the world, he was a former president and global humanitarian. But here in this quiet Southern town, Jimmy Carter was something altogether more — a Sunday school teacher ...
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Plains community expects big crowds will come to town after Jimmy Carter’s death
This sign from Main Street in Plains, Georgia, thanking Jimmy Carter for all he did, was seen the evening of former president Jimmy Carter’s death on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. Carter died in his ...