After the State Funeral in Washington, President Carter’s body will be flown home to Georgia, and to the final farewell in his beloved hometown of Plains. A central piece of that last goodbye will be ...

Jimmy and Plains:The lines blur between Jimmy Carter ... a wooden cross carved by Jimmy Carter hung in the background. Jan Williams, a longtime member at Maranatha, said the hours since former ...

PLAINS, Ga. — The town of Plains is preparing to ... Everyone in Plains will be out to see it. Jan Williams sat on her front porch in Plains on Friday afternoon and spoke with Channel 2 ...

PLAINS, Ga. (WRBL) — Think of Jimmy Carter’s life as a book. Appropriate, given he was a prolific writer. And yesterday was the last paragraph in the final chapter of a century-old story.

I will also think of Jan Williams, the pianist at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. “Carter said he couldn’t sing,” she told me. “But I liked his voice.” The late president ...

"From the Plains Peanut Festival to the Governor’s Mansion, to the White House—and to communities around the globe—they remained grounded and humble, and Plains always remained home in their hearts.” ...

but Jan Williams still fields emails and calls from people who want to hear the 39th president teach the Word. For years, Williams has been a familiar face to those who journeyed to Plains and the ...

The motorcade for President Jimmy Carter’s funeral began in Americus, Ga., a town of about 15,000 near Carter’s hometown of Plains, Ga. As I watched the current and former Secret Service ...

(Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder) ATLANTA — Former President Jimmy Carter ... in Americus and will culminate Thursday with services in Washington and finally back in Plains. Carter will lie in repose at ...