Tony Lowden, the Carters’ personal pastor, will deliver opening remarks. Mark Westmoreland, Glenn Memorial’s senior pastor, will give the call to worship and invocation. Longtime aide and friend Kathryn Cade, journalist Judy Woodruff and grandson Jason Carter will deliver tributes. For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” A grandson and three of Rosalynn Carter’s great-grandchildren will read from scripture, including Galatians 5:13-14: “Serve one another humbly in love. Daughter Amy Carter will present a reading. Son James Earl “Chip” Carter III will welcome mourners.
history.Įleven of the Carters’ grandchildren will serve as honorary pallbearers. A Nobel Peace Prize recipient, he is the longest living former president in U.S. She was 96 and had been battling dementia.įormer President Jimmy Carter, 99, who entered home hospice care in February after a series of brief hospital stays, is expected to attend the service today. Explore Read the program for former first lady Rosalynn Carter's tribute serviceĪ longtime champion for the most vulnerable, Carter died this month with her family at her side at her home in Southwest Georgia.
