PLAINS, Ga. — Landmarks and notable events in the life of former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 96: Aug. 18, 1927: Eleanor Rosalynn Smith is born at her family home in ...

The Carters were married for 77 years until Rosalynn died on Nov. 19, 2023. Jimmy Carter died on Dec. 29, 2024, nearly three months after he celebrated his 100th birthday. The couple are buried next ...

As a girl, she — Rosalynn Smith — sometimes runs away, just across the street to play with the neighbor boys, to feel what it would feel like: escape, freedom, adventure.

Eleanor Rosalynn Smith was born Aug. 18, 1927, in Plains to Edgar and Alice Smith, and married Carter on July 7, 1946. They went on to have four children.

Born Eleanor Rosalynn Smith in Plains on Aug. 18, 1927, Carter was unknowingly introduced to her future husband on the week of her birth. Jimmy Carter, also from the farming town, was 2.

Rosalynn Carter was the second longest-lived of the nation's first ladies, trailing only Bess Truman, who died at age 97. Eleanor Rosalynn Smith was born in Plains on Aug. 18, 1927, the eldest of ...

When Eleanor Rosalynn Smith first laid eyes on Jimmy Carter, he was a fascinating older boy. She was a few days old and he was 3, and his mother was a nurse who helped deliver the infant girl in ...

Rosalynn Carter was by her husband's side when he was inaugurated as the nation's 39th president in 1977 and was his rock of support during a hostage-taking crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Iran that ...

Eleanor Rosalynn Smith was born in the small town of Plains, Georgia — the same town as her future husband — on Aug. 18, 1927, and was the eldest of four children.

Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, died Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023.

It’s a picture of Rosalynn Smith Carter – who passed away Sunday morning at her home in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 96 – that I’ll never forget. Disciplined, focused, dutiful and resolute.

A timeline of key moments from former first lady Rosalynn Carter’s 96 years.