The former first lady of USA, Rosalynn Carteris dead. The former president’s 96-year-old wife Jimmy Carter was in his hometown on Sunday afternoon (local time). Plains died “peacefully surrounded by family” in the US state of Georgia, said a foundation created by the Carters.
“Rosalynn has been my equal partner in everything I have ever accomplished,” Jimmy Carter, 99, said, according to the foundation. “As long as Rosalynn was in the world, she always knew that someone loved and supported me,” said the former president. In May, it became public that Rosalynn Carter was suffering from dementia.
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The foundation only announced on Friday that the 96-year-old man was receiving palliative care at home. Jimmy Carter has also been receiving hospice care at home with his family since mid-February.
Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter married in 1946 – the couple have four children. The former first lady campaigned on social issues and wrote several books. She is said to have had a significant influence on White House policy during her husband’s presidency. The Democratic politician from the state of Georgia, in the southern United States, was US president from 1977 to 1981, until he was replaced by Republican Ronald Reagan.
Carter is the oldest living former US president. No other of the 45 presidents lived to a greater age than Carter, and no one was a former president for as long as he was. The Georgia peanut farmer also survived several serious illnesses, including skin cancer that had metastasized to his brain and liver.
In winter, the couple’s foundation made it public that the former president no longer wanted to take any further medical measures after a series of hospital admissions. In September, he surprised everyone with a public appearance at a peanut parade in his hometown of Plains. Carter and his wife Rosalynn showed up in a dark limousine.