Jimmy Carter to be honored at Washington funeral and laid to rest in Georgia
State funeral to be held for former president on national day of mourning before he is buried next to wife in Plains
Jimmy Carter, the former US president who died aged 100 on Sunday, will be honored with a state funeral before being laid to rest in his home town of Plains, Georgia, next to his wife, Rosalynn.
The proceedings to honor the 39th president of the United States will start on Saturday, when a motorcade accompanying Carter will travel through Plains to his boyhood home. The procession will briefly pause in front of his family’s farm.
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