Jimmy Carter to be honored in Georgia at this time with procession and repair

Six days of occasions honoring former President Jimmy Carter start Saturday with a procession stopping in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, tributes on the state Capitol, after which a personal service on the Carter Middle in Atlanta, the place his physique will lie in repose till Tuesday.

Carter died on Dec. 29 on the age of 100. He served within the U.S. Navy for seven years earlier than engaged on the household farm and working for workplace in Georgia, profitable the governorship in 1970. Carter, a Democrat, was elected to the White Home in 1976 and served a single time period. 

In his life post-presidency, Carter continued to pursue his ardour for humanitarian work and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his a long time of efforts in advancing worldwide peace, democracy and human rights.

“For us, in my household, we simply knew him as a grandfather … and we have shared him with the nation and the world in sure methods,” Jason Carter, his grandson and chair of the Carter Middle’s board, advised “CBS Mornings” on Friday. “I feel individuals actually join with him as a result of he was at all times only a common man.”

“That is any person from a small city in south Georgia who was a peanut farmer who in the end turned the president of the USA. It is a fairly exceptional American story,” he added.

Saturday’s occasions begin within the morning when Carter’s household arrives at an area medical middle in Americus, Georgia, with present and former Secret Service brokers carrying Carter’s casket to the hearse and strolling alongside it because the motorcade departs for Plains.

In Plains, the motorcade will pause briefly in entrance of the farm the place he grew up, and the Nationwide Park Service will ring a bell 39 instances in his honor, in recognition of his standing because the nation’s thirty ninth president.

The motorcade will then journey to the state Capitol in Atlanta, the place there might be a second of silence led by Gov. Brian Kemp, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, Mayor of Atlanta Andre Dickens, members of the Georgia Legislature and Georgia State Patrol Troopers. 

The motorcade will then depart for the Carter Middle, the place there might be an arrival ceremony, adopted by a personal service. 

Carter’s physique will then lie in repose on the Carter Middle till 6 a.m. on Tuesday. A departure ceremony might be held, after which his casket might be transported to Washington, D.C., the place he might be transferred to a hearse with an arrival ceremony. The motorcade will cease on the U.S. Navy Memorial after which the casket might be transferred from a hearse to a horse-drawn caisson with ceremony.

The funeral procession will then head to the U.S. Capitol, the place army bearers will carry the casket to the Rotunda. Members of Congress pays their respects throughout a ceremony, after which Carter will lie in state whereas the army maintains a guard of honor. Members of the general public can have a chance to pay their respects.

Carter will lie in state within the Rotunda till Thursday, when there might be a state funeral on the Washington Nationwide Cathedral. His stays will then be transferred again to Georgia for a personal funeral service on the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, the place Carter taught Sunday college for a few years.

Following the non-public funeral, there might be a motorcade by way of Plains to his residence, the place he’s set to be buried. The U.S. Navy will conduct a lacking man formation flyover to honor him, after which there might be a personal burial. 

He might be laid to relaxation beside his spouse of 77 years, Rosalynn, who died in November 2023.