Former President Jimmy Carter's funeral services will begin Saturday at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia. The procession will travel to Plains, passing by significant locations in Carter's life, before concluding at his family farm.
Tom Chaffin, of Atlanta, leaves flowers at the entrance to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024, in Atlanta. Carter died Sunday at the age of 100. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) Funeral services for former President Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100, will start Saturday at 10:15 a.m. EST at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus. Former Secret Service agents who protected Carter will serve as pallbearers.
The hearse will depart the medical center and travel to Plains, passing through downtown, near the location of Rosalynn Carter's childhood home, and the site of the family peanut warehouses. The motorcade will also pass the old train depot, which was Carter's 1976 presidential campaign headquarters, and the gas station once run by his younger brother, Billy. The Carters built their one-story house, now surrounded by Secret Service fencing, before his first state Senate campaign in 1962. They lived there for most of their lives, except for four years in the Governor's Mansion and four more in the White House. The funeral procession will continue to Carter's family farm and boyhood home in Archery, outside Plains, where the National Park Service will ring the old farm bell 39 times to honor the 39th president. Carter was the first president born in a hospital, and he lived most of his life in and around Plains, a town with fewer than 700 people. Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton also grew up in rural settings, but Carter stands out for returning and remaining in his birthplace for his long post-presidency
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