Thursday's services capped six days of remembrance for Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. Following the honors in Washington, it was his wish to be buried in his hometown of Plains, next to his beloved wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter.

After his funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral, Jimmy Carter is being flown to Georgia to be laid to rest in his beloved hometown Plains.

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.

After this morning's service in Washington D.C., the former president's casket has arrived back home in Plains.

10:24 a.m.: Grandson Joshua Carter recalled the former president's years of teaching Sunday school at Marantha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. He said that Carter would often share news during his classes, connecting the former president's faith with his desire to help those in need.

Carter will be buried next to his wife, Rosalynn Carter, in Plains. The rural Georgia town only has about 600 residents, but the Carters made the city a much more well-known area during his four years in the White House. Carter spent his final years in Plains, too.

In Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s hometown of Plains, Georgia, there will be a new reminder of the renowned legacy of former President and late First Lady Rosalynn Carter: an eponymous post office. Signed into law less than a week after Jimmy Carter’s ...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital and second service in his tiny Georgia hometown.

Mattie Wright, 73, from Albany, Georgia, signs the condolence book in memory of former president Jimmy Carter on the day of former president Carter’s funeral in his hometown of Plains on ...

Carter’s impulse to heal and seek peace was evident on his second day in office, when he pardoned all who had left the country to evade the Vietnam War draft. He went on to conclude the historic Camp David Accords and a later treaty bringing peace and establishing diplomatic relations between Israel and Egypt.

Father Pablo Migone, Bishop of Savannah and the pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes in Port Wentworth and Corpus Christi in Pooler was in the crowd that day, and chronicled the experience in a blog post then, which he reposted the day Carter died at 100 on Dec. 29, 2024.