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Rosalynn Carter set for funeral and burial in the town where she and her husband were born

Nov. 29, 2023 00:45 AM EST

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Rosalynn Carter will receive her final farewells Wednesday in the same tiny town where she was born and that served as a home base as she and her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, climbed to the White House and spent four decades thereafter as global humanitarians. ...

Rosalynn Carter honored by family, friends, first ladies and presidents, including husband Jimmy

Nov. 28, 2023 20:23 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — Rosalynn Carter was remembered Tuesday as a former U.S. first lady who leveraged her fierce intellect and political power to put her deep Christian faith into action by always helping others, especially those who needed it most. A gathering of first ladies and...

Rosalynn Carter tributes highlight her reach as first lady and humanitarian

Nov. 27, 2023 20:45 PM EST

AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) — Hundreds turned out to salute Rosalynn Carter on Monday with the former U.S. first lady and global humanitarian's final journey from her rural hometown to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta as her family began three days of memorials following her death at age...

Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter were not only a global power couple but also best friends and life mates

Nov. 26, 2023 19:53 PM EST

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter could not remember their first meeting. She was a newborn. He wasn't long out of diapers himself, a would-be U.S. president peering down at the future first lady his mother had delivered a few days earlier. What flourished in the...

Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter were not only a global power couple but also best friends and life mates

Nov. 26, 2023 19:52 PM EST

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — In spring 1955, Rosalynn Carter was doing what she had sworn to avoid when she married an ambitious Naval officer: keeping house and raising children in the same tiny town where they grew up. Then Jimmy Carter called for help from his family’s peanut farming...

President Joe Biden orders US flags lowered in memory of former first lady Rosalynn Carter

Nov. 21, 2023 21:07 PM EST

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — President Joe Biden has ordered that U.S. flags on federal government buildings and property will be lowered to half staff for five days in recognition of former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 96. Biden's order calls for flags to fly half-staff from...

Rosalynn Carter made a wrongfully convicted felon a White House nanny and helped win her pardon

Nov. 21, 2023 15:36 PM EST

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Rosalynn Carter was never a lawyer. But the former first lady used her powerful posts to address injustices imposed as part of the racist Jim Crow system that prevailed in Georgia courts as her husband climbed the political ladder. The most personal of those...

Rosalynn Carter's advocacy for mental health was rooted in compassion and perseverance

Nov. 21, 2023 10:39 AM EST

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The sun was shining in June 1979 as Rosalynn Carter made her way through an enthusiastic crowd in Laconia, New Hampshire. “She shook my hand!” yelled one delighted participant. The first lady was in the state for her husband’s reelection...

Rosalynn Carter's tiny hometown mourns a global figure who made many contributions at home

Nov. 20, 2023 21:14 PM EST

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Linda Campbell decorated the Lions Club Christmas tree in her small hometown just as she would any other Thanksgiving week, but this was no ordinary Monday in late November. All around Plains, neighbors mourned the death of their matriarch, former U.S. first lady...

Rosalynn Carter: Advocate for Jimmy Carter and many others, always leveraging her love of politics

Nov. 19, 2023 23:09 PM EST

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — The Washington chattering class, often unsure what to make of outsiders, dubbed Rosalynn Carter the “Steel Magnolia” when she arrived as first lady. A devout Baptist and mother of four, she was diminutive and outwardly shy, with a soft smile and softer...