PLAINS: The body of Rosalynn Carter, the former US first lady who died on Nov 19 at age 96, lain in repose on Monday in Georgia, giving Americans the chance to pay their respects to the woman her husband, former president Jimmy Carter, called “an extension of myself.”
Carter died shortly after she entered hospice care at home in Plains, Georgia, alongside her husband, a Democrat who gave his wife a prominent voice during his presidency from 1977-1981 and supported her advocacy in the cause of mental health.
Her family and current and former members of her US Secret Service security detail joined a hearse motorcade on Monday morning to the Rosalynn Carter Health and Human Sciences Complex at Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia, where wreaths were laid. Spectators in Plains waved US flags as the motorcade passed by them.
A repose service will be held in the afternoon in the lobby of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta.
Published in Dawn, November 28th, 2023
Source: dawn.com
