Former President Jimmy Carter has now been returned to Georgia after lying in state at the US Capitol in Washington, where a funeral service was held Thursday at the National Cathedral featuring a eulogy by President Joe Biden.
Carter grew up on a farm just outside Plains, the tiny Southwest Georgia farm town he called home for most of a century.
Following a service at Maranatha Baptist Church, the motorcade passed through the tiny downtown, home to Carter’s presidential campaign headquarters.
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