Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.

"From the Plains Peanut Festival to the Governor’s Mansion, to the White House—and to communities around the globe—they remained grounded and humble, and Plains always remained home in their hearts.”

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Before Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, picked up a hammer and nails to frame out Cecelia "Cece" Dukuly’s home in 1989, Dukuly was familiar with the 39th president from her time as a teen living in Liberia.

The Carters met and raised their family in Plains, Ga. and returned to their beloved hometown after Jimmy's presidency

Jimmy Carter also considered his wife his muse. "She'd smile, and birds would feel that they no longer had to sing, or it may be I failed to hear their song," Jimmy Carter wrote in a poem titled "Rosalynn" from his 1995 book " Always a Reckoning and Other Poems ."

After the presidency, Carter continued to visit Mississippi. In December of 2001, three months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he signed books at Lemuria bookstore in Jackson.

The San Antonio affiliate of Habitat for Humanity, one of the oldest and most active chapters in the nearly 50 years of the global affordable-housing network, is raising funds for a “tribute home” to be built this year in memory of President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn.

Former President Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100 on Dec. 29, about a year after his wife and former first lady Rosalynn Carter died on Nov. 19, 2023 at 96 years old. Ahead of his official state funeral at 10 a.

They had four children: Jack, Chip, Jeff, and Amy. The Carters have 25 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, The Carter Center said in a statement following Rosalynn's death. Their oldest son, 77-year-old John William "Jack" Carter, followed his father into politics.

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's 77-year marriage has become part of the couple's political lore. "Yours is a love like everyone would wish that they would have," US broadcasting star Oprah Winfrey told the former president in 2015.