Savannah Morning News28d
"He was the same man all the time": Plains locals, visitors reflect on Carter's humility
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 ...
Yahoo29d
The lines blur between Jimmy Carter and Plains, Georgia. A trip shows how they made each other
Saturday, August 17, 2024; Plains, Georgia; All of the stores along the ... longtime Maranatha member Jan Williams said. At a glance the cross looks straight out of a top woodshop, perfectly ...
Yahoo19d
Longtime Carter friend says Thursday’s Maranatha service will be Plains’ farewell to the president
PLAINS, Ga. (WRBL) — After the State Funeral in ... WRBL talked to longtime Maranatha Baptist member Jan Williams this afternoon in her Plains home. Williams knew the Carters – Jimmy and ...
WSB-TV24d
Family friend says Jimmy Carter’s ‘body was getting tired’ in his final months
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 ...
Longtime Carter friend says Thursday’s Maranatha service will be Plains’ farewell to the president
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 ...
Saturday Down South4d
SEC Basketball Preview: Ranking every game for Saturday, Jan. 25, men’s hoops slate
SEC basketball continues this Saturday with another full slate of 8 games. We get a top-10 battle on The Plains, as well as ...
News4Jax24d
Sunday school class with Jimmy Carter: What it was like
For young and old, straight and gay, believers and nonbelievers, Black and white and brown, Maranatha was a far-off-the-beaten path destination in southwest Georgia where Carter, well into his 90s ...
Variety29d
On Jimmy Carter’s Deep and Historic Connection With Musicians: Why He Is Remembered as the ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll President’
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 ...
walb24d
Maranatha Baptist Church pays tribute to late Pres. Jimmy Carter
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Maranatha Baptist Church was ... number one to him was I’m a Christian,” said Jan Williams, a Carter family friend and church member. On the first Sunday that Jimmy ...
WSB-TV24d
Sunday School class with Jimmy Carter: What it was like
PLAINS, Ga. (AP ... a strict set of rules would be laid out by Ms. Jan — Jan Williams, a longtime church member and friend of the Carters. She would have made quite a drill sergeant.
The Christian Century29d
Jimmy Carter, beloved Sunday school teacher, former president, dies at 100
Carter died at his home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by family ... “We stacked them wherever we could put ’em,” Maranatha member Jan Williams recalled of the day when nine motorcoaches arrived with ...