Jimmy Carter funeral updates: Timeline of events as former president honored by family in first services
President Jimmy Carter’s funeral will begin on Saturday with a procession in Georgia, where he will be honored throughout the state.
Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and peanut farm operator who became the 39th president of the United States, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, last week at 100 years old.
Now, his funeral will begin in Americus, Georgia on Saturday morning. Former and current Secret Service agents assigned to Carter’s detail will carry his remains to a hearse. From there, the motorcade will travel to his childhood home in Plains before heading toward Atlanta.
In the state’s capital, the former president will be taken to the Carter Presidential Center, where he will lie in repose until early Tuesday.
Later this week, Carter’s body will be flown to Washington, D.C., where he will lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda. His national funeral will be held at the National Cathedral.
Biden has marked January 9 as a national day of mourning and has called on U.S. citizens to assemble “in their respective places of worship” to pay homage to the former president.
