News coverage of former President Jimmy Carter's funeral procession and public tributes in Plains, Georgia, following his death at age 100. The report highlights his dedication to teaching Sunday school and his legacy of service.
FILE – Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown, Aug. 23, 2015, in Plains, Ga. The 90-year-old Carter gave one lesson to about 300 people filling the small Baptist church that he and his wife, Rosalynn, attend. It was Carter’s first lesson since detailing the intravenous drug doses and radiation treatment planned to treat melanoma found in his brain after surgery to remove a tumor from his liver.
FILE – Former President Jimmy Carter welcomes visitors to Maranatha Baptist Church before teaching Sunday school in Plains, Ga., June 8, 2014. FILE – Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown, Aug. 23, 2015, in Plains, Ga. The 90-year-old Carter gave one lesson to about 300 people filling the small Baptist church that he and his wife, Rosalynn, attend.
It was Porter Shelbrock’s idea to make the trip to Plains from Gainesville, Florida, with his grandmother, Susan Cone, 66. He admires Carter forWillie Browner, 75, described Carter as hailing from a bygone era of American politics. Leaving downtown, the procession passed the home where Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter both died. It’s the same one-story house the couple built before his first Senate campaign in 1962, their lives there interrupted only by four years in the Georgia Governor’s Mansion and four years in the White House.
Carter wrote and spoke extensively on those formative years and how the abject poverty and institutional racism he saw influenced his future policies in government and his human rights work once he left the White House.
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