Associated Press
Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter begin Saturday in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.
The proceedings are scheduled to begin at 10:15 a.m. EST Saturday with the Carter family arriving at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus.
Former Secret Service agents who protected Carter will serve as pallbearers, walking alongside the hearse as it exits the campus on its way to Plains.
The motorcade will move through downtown Plains, which spans just a few blocks, passing near the girlhood home of First Lady Rosalynn Smith Carter, who died in November 2023 at the age of 96, and near where the couple operated the family peanut warehouses. The route also includes the old train depot that served as Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign headquarters and the gas station once run by Carter’s younger brother Billy.
The military-run schedule calls for a 10:50 a.m. stop in front of Carter’s family farm and boyhood home in Archery, outside Plains.
From Archery, the motorcade will head north to Atlanta and will stop at 3 p.m. outside at the Georgia Capitol, where he served as a State Senator from 1963 to 1967 and Governor from 1971 to 1975.
The motorcade then is scheduled to arrive at the Carter Presidential Center at 3:45 p.m., with a private service at 4 p.m.
From 7 p.m. Saturday through 6 a.m. Monday, Carter will lie in repose for the public to pay respects around the clock.
Carter’s remains will travel next to Washington, where he will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda until his funeral at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral.
The Carter family then will return to bury its patriarch in Plains after a private hometown funeral at 3:45 p.m. at Maranatha Baptist Church.
Carter will be buried afterward in a private graveside service, in a plot visible from the front porch of his home.
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Republished with permission of the Associated Press.
2 comments
Andrew Finn
January 4, 2025 at 11:19 am
RIP Jimmy Carter. Sad day indeed to wrap up this sad year, but you made it to 100, which most of us will not. You came along at a rough time in American history and proved that a man of strong integrity and faith could lead a nation. No easy task, as usually an honest man who means well does not do well in Washington. Most of the other 45 could take a lesson. Thank you for your service, from the Navy, to Georgia, to the United States. We all owe thanks and respect to a man who should be an inspiration to all. Jimmy, you are gone, but will never be forgotten. God speed sir !!!!!!
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