PLAINS, Ga. — People in the small town of Plains paid honor to Rosalynn Carter as a neighbor, a friend and a woman who fought for this community.
She had a way of relating to people, whether she was talking about the peanut business or politics.
And it is because of that that people wanted to pay their final respects on a cold November day.
Before dawn Wednesday, Plains lit up the night sky, with a remembrance to Rosalynn Carter sitting front and center under the Plains Christmas tree.
Stephanie Young came in early and put out a sign out front of her store on Main Street.
"Well done, Good and faithful servant. You will be missed! Rosalynn Carter," it read. "Prayers for the Carter and Smith families."
She says folks in Plains will strive to live the way Rosalynn did.
"We will practice what she has practiced all throughout these years and stuff just love and kindness and you know be in the community and doing what we can for other," Young said
And on this day what others did for Rosalynn is show up, lining the barricades with American flags in hand, honoring a woman who did so much for them.
"Growing up we always used to see them and we used to take pictures with them and they used to come to family functions and things like that," Terrance Little said.
In 1977, former President Carter and Rosalynn did something unheard of at that time, on inauguration day they left the limos and walked down Pennsylvania Avenue. Wednesday in a nod to that the Carter family walked down Highway 280 to Rosalynn's interment.
A former First Lady who made an impact on the world for 96 years and whose legacy will live on.
"Just gotta heal and hope for the best and we wish the Carter family the best," Little said.
Jill Stuckey with the U.S. Parks Service this week. She said because of his role as a former president, people may or may not have liked Jimmy Carter but she never heard anyone say an unkind word of Rosalynn.
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