Rip Rosalynn Carter

[88Comrade2000]

People: Rosalynn Carter, Former First Lady and Mental Health Advocate, Dead at 96

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>>>The former first lady who dedicated her life to mental health and human rights advocacy died at her Plains, Georgia, home on Sunday afternoon, two days after entering hospice care.

 

Rosalynn Carter, a lifelong advocate for mental health and human rights, died surrounded by family on Sunday afternoon, two days after she entered hospice care following a dementia diagnosis in May. She was 96.

 

Rosalynn was married to the nation’s 39th president, Jimmy Carter, for 77 years, and served as the first lady during his tenure from 1977 to 1981. She is survived by their four children and numerous grandchildren and great-children. Jimmy, who terminated medical intervention in February amid his own health challenges at the age of 99, remains in hospice care at home.<<<

Edited November 19, 2023 by 88Comrade2000

[The 12th Commandment]

RIP Mrs Carter.  Met her when I was a kid on a field trip to the National Archives.  Class act.

[skinsmarydu]

Absolutely a wonderful woman.  I've lived in GA for 34 years and the Carters are royalty here. 

Rest in peace...you worked so hard for all of us.  🏆

[China]

RIP.  Never met her but was at Hardy Middle School in DC when they sent their daughter Amy there for school.

[EmirOfShmo]

RIP. Maybe this is wrong but I'm glad she passed before Jimmy. Although saying that, I'm sure he's not going to survive much longer. Great Americans both...RIP

[LadySkinsFan]

I loved the Carters as our First Family. Lovely couple, so devoted to our country. Were the first to put solar panels on the White House, so progressive. I wish he had won his second term, we would have been much farther along as a country. 

 

RIP Mrs. Carter. 

[TradeTheBeal!]

An angel in the flesh.  
 

RIP

[Dan T.]

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is one of the greatest love stories - and most enduring - in American history.

 

 

[skinsmarydu]

Her commencement speech at Morehouse in 1980. 

 

 

[BleedBNG]

In 1927 in Plains, Georgia, a three-year-old boy named Jimmy Carter lived next door to an auto mechanic, Francis Smith, and his pregnant wife, Allie. That August, Allie went into labor, and Jimmy's mother, a nurse, helped deliver her daughter. The next day, little Jimmy went next door and peered into the crib. The baby inside was named Rosalynn. 

As a teenager, "Rosie" had a fierce crush on Jimmy, but he was three years older, and apparently took little notice of the shy kid next door. During WWII, he left town to join the Naval Academy. One day in the summer of 1945, Jimmy returned to Plains on vacation. While riding in the rumble seat of a friend's Ford, he looked toward the United Methodist church and saw Rosie, now seventeen and all grown up, standing out front. He was gobsmacked. Jimmy hopped out of the rumble seat and asked her to the movies. She jumped right in. He came home that night and told his mother that the baby she'd delivered seventeen years earlier was the girl he was going to marry. 

The marriage of Jimmy and Rosalynn was the longest in presidential history. Before Rosalynn's death, they had known each other for almost one hundred years.

[skinsmarydu]

I can't tell y'all how her passing is hitting here.

Like I said, the Carters are royalty. 

I want a hardhat with Rosalynn on the front. 

 

*I can barely do my own yardwork, she helped build homes.* 

 

Please know how respected you were here.  At least to me.  

[JCB]

True Christians. Godspeed, ma’am.

[Simmsy]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/rosalynn-jimmy-carter-funeral-service-latest-b2455296.html

 

Why do we feel the need to wheel old people out to show them off in public? Jimmy Carter looks dead already, let the man have some peace. A cousin did this to my mom while she was in hospice care, dragged her out to "hang out". The picture she sent us was of a confused, tired, half dead looking mother. Let the old people rest! Does he even know where he is?

[88Comrade2000]

I think he would’ve wanted to be there, despite his current state.