Morgan Minick paints an indication thanking former President Jimmy Carter in his hometown after he died Sunday in Plains, Ga. President Carter lived to be 100 years outdated, making him the longest residing U.S. president in historical past.
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ATLANTA — Funeral providers for former president Jimmy Carter have been launched, spanning six days, three cities and a number of stops at locations that held significance throughout his life.
Carter died Sunday on the age of 100.
In a launch from the Joint Process Pressure-Nationwide Capital Area, the group tasked with coordinating state funerals, the celebration of Carter’s life begins Saturday, Jan. 4, when his stays depart the Phoebe Sumter Medical Middle in Americus, Ga., within the morning.
The motorcade will journey by Carter’s hometown of Plains to his childhood house and household farm earlier than heading to Atlanta. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and different dignitaries will observe a second of silence with the motorcade on the state Capitol, honoring Carter’s time as a state senator and governor.
From there, Carter’s stays will lie in repose on the Carter Presidential Middle, the place members of the general public pays their respects from 7 p.m. ET Saturday by 6 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7.
Tuesday morning, Carter and his household will journey to Washington, D.C., the place the previous Navy lieutenant might be transferred from a hearse to a horse-drawn caisson from the U.S. Navy Memorial to the U.S. Capitol.
There might be a 3 p.m. Tuesday service the place members of Congress pays their respects within the Capitol Rotunda, and the general public might be allowed to pay respects whereas Carter lies in state from 7 p.m. to midnight Tuesday and seven a.m. Wednesday by 7 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 9.
After a last ceremony on the Capitol, Carter’s motorcade will journey to the Washington Nationwide Cathedral for a Nationwide Funeral Service earlier than a last flight again to Georgia on Thursday.
Carter might be celebrated with a non-public funeral at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, the place he taught Sunday Faculty nicely into the ultimate years of his life. Following the service, Carter might be interred on the household house in a non-public ceremony, buried beneath a willow tree subsequent to his late spouse Rosalynn.
