SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – Funeral services continue today for former President Jimmy Carter – as his begins his final trip to Washington D.C.
Carter died at the age 100 and leaves behind a life dedicated to decades of service. From plains to politics the former President Jimmy Carter accomplished a lot even after leaving the White House – becoming the only president to win a Nobel Peace Prize after his term.
Now the journey to get the president’s body from Atlanta to the nation’s capital begins in a few short hours Tuesday morning.
The funeral began Saturday morning in his hometown of Plains Georgia with a motorcade ride. Here they stopped at his boyhood home, and the Methodist church where the Carters married in 1946.
From there the motorcade traveled to Georgia’s State Capitol in Atlanta.
“There was a lot of love on the side of the road for the motorcade. Every overpass had people on it. It was amazing and gave me goosebumps,” said Chip Carter, Jimmy Carter’s son, at a service for his father in Atlanta this week when recalling the motorcade.