Jeff’s middle son Jeremy died of a sudden heart attack in front of his mother at the age of 28 in 2015. According to a blog post written by Joshua on the day after Jeremy’s death on December 20, 2015, his brother had gone through several health issues in the months reading up to his passing. She moved to Atlanta following her father’s presidential term and went on to serve as a Senate page in 1982. Due to poor academic performance, Amy was let go from Brown University in 1981, but later earned her bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Memphis College of Art and Tulane University in 1991 and 1996, respectively.
Jeff met his wife Annette Davis john joseph kelly and amy carter on their first day of college at Georgia Southwestern University; they married four years later on April 6, 1975. In 1978, Jeff graduated with honors from George Washington University, where he studied geography and specialized in computer cartography, per TIME magazine. He and his former professor co-founded their company Computer Mapping Consultants that same year.
During Tuesday’s tribute service, son James Earl “Chip” Carter III told a story about how his mother, Rosalynn Carter, demonstrated the art of doing the hula. The Carters lived in Hawaii early in their marriage and Chip was born in Hawaii. Coming from that town of about 600 — then and now — Rosalynn Carter changed lives across America and the developing world, mourners were told at her services this week.
Tying the knot in 1946, the couple went on to welcome a combined total of 22 kids, grandkids and great-grandkids. Jimmy and Rosalynn welcomed their eldest, John William “Jack” Carter, in 1947, followed by son James “Chip” Carter in 1950, and son Donnel Jeffrey “Jeff” Carter in 1952. Former President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn Carter built quite the family over the course of their 77-year marriage. Her burial site is within view of the front porch of the home where the 39th American president still lives. PLAINS, Ga. — Rosalynn Carter received her final farewells Wednesday in the same tiny town where she and Jimmy Carter were born, forever their home base as they climbed to the White House and traveled the world for humanitarian causes.
He and Ginger divorced in 2001, and he is currently married to Becky Payne Carter, with whom he resides in Decatur, Georgia. Jack followed in his father’s political footsteps by winning the Democratic primary election for U.S. Senate in Nevada in 2006 but lost the race to incumbent Republican senator John Ensign.
Jimmy Carter says final goodbye to wife Rosalynn at intimate funeral held in the town where they were born
Rosalynn Carter will be buried in a plot she will one day share with her husband of 77 years. The former president, now 99, left home hospice care to attend Tuesday’s memorial, where two other presidents and all the living first ladies joined the extended Carter family before Wednesday’s more intimate hometown funeral. She will be buried in a plot she will one day share with her husband of 77 years. The former president, now 99, left home hospice care to attend Tuesday’s memorial, where two other presidents and all the living first ladies joined the extended Carter family, as well as Wednesday’s more intimate hometown funeral. Mourners viewed her casket at her husband’s presidential library, steps from The Carter Center they co-founded after leaving the White House.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s Children
- His brother Josh wrote in an emotional blog post that Jeremy had recently undergone a series of medical tests after he began experiencing achy legs and poor appetite; his doctors had not found any issues with his heart.
- Chip and his sister, Amy, held their father’s hands and were flanked by their brothers, Jeff and Jack.
- From there, the motorcade snaked through the commercial district where Rosalynn served as Jimmy’s partner in the peanut business and the old train depot from where she helped run his 1976 presidential campaign.
Jimmy Carter’s closest political adviser and a political force in her own right, she advocated for better mental health care and underappreciated caregivers in millions of U.S. households. Traveling overseas, she fought disease, famine, and the abuse of women and girls. Coming from that town of about 600 — then and now — Rosalynn Carter changed lives across America and the developing world, her grandson said. His research was highly publicized in the 2012 presidential election between then-incumbent President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney. James was behind the leak of a viral video of Romney at a fundraiser telling the crowd that 47% of Americans “believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it,” among other baseless assertions. “I’ve been searching for clips on Republicans for a long time, almost every day,” he told New York Magazine.
He later married Ginger Hodges, with whom he welcomed daughter Margaret Alicia Carter on Sept. 23, 1987. Chip and Hodges also divorced; in 2001, he married his third wife, Becky Payne, with whom he lives in Decatur, Georgia. Chip married Caron Griffin on June 23, 1973, after meeting her three years earlier during his father’s campaign for governor in Georgia.
James Earl “Chip” Carter III, 74
John spent the following years researching and learning more about the collection, which, as of May 2022, he was working to update with the help of the Recording Industry Association of America. According to his website, John currently lives in Los Angeles with his two daughters. “We walk in and they’re all in these cardboard boxes,” he described to NPR.
The Atlanta events reflected the grandest chapters of Rosalynn Carter’s life. President Joe Biden, former President Bill Clinton and the first ladies joined Jimmy Carter and their four children in the front row, in front of more than 1,000 congregants in suits, ties and dresses. “She was born just a few years after women got the right to vote in this small town in the South where people were still plowing their fields behind mules,” grandson Jason Carter said during the memorial service Tuesday at Atlanta’s Glenn Memorial Church. Jimmy Carter met his future wife only a few days after her mother delivered her.