After Jimmy Carter lost his bid for reelection, he and wife Rosalynn Carter returned to their hometown of Plains, Georgia, where they moved back into the only home they ever owned, located at 209 Woodland Drive.

Former President Jimmy Carter’s long public goodbye began Saturday in Georgia, where he died this week at the age of 100.

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.

Former President Jimmy Carter has been laid to rest at his home in Plains, Georgia. The beloved former president is being buried underneath a willow tree on the property of his Plains home next to his beloved wife, Rosalynn Carter, who died in 2023.

“After Friday we are just going to start settling back down and getting back to some type of normal,” said Lynton Earl Godwin, who is known around town as “Boze” and served as the mayor of Plains for 38 years until he retired last January. “The town has been anticipating this, and President Carter was anticipating it also.”

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital and second service in his tiny Georgia hometown.

PLAINS, Ga. (AP ... their lives there interrupted only by four years in the Georgia Governor’s Mansion and four years in the White House. Then the former president was honored by the ...

From the beginning, Jimmy Carter seemed like a detergent who could sweep into the nation’s capital and scrub it clean.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is being honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital before a second service in his tiny Georgia hometown that launched a Depression-era farm boy

10:24 a.m.: Grandson Joshua Carter recalled the former president's years of teaching Sunday school at Marantha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. He said that Carter would often share news during his classes, connecting the former president's faith with his desire to help those in need.

Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter began Saturday in Georgia, where he died ... Governor's Mansion and four more in the White House.A stop at Carter's boyhood ...

12:08 p.m. Carter’s casket is escorted out of Washington National Cathedral to begin his final trip to Plains, Georgia. 12:06 p.m. The congregation is dismissed.