Mourners gathered on Thursday in Plains, Georgia, to pay their last respects to former US President Jimmy Carter during the final day of his state funeral. The hearse carrying Carter's casket passed through his hometown on its way to the family cemetery after a private service at Maranatha Baptist Church.

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital and second service in his tiny Georgia hometown that launched a Depression-era farm boy to the world stage.

The next time you’re marveling at the ruins at Sweetwater Creek State Park in Lithia Springs or standing in awe of the place known as “Georgia’s Little Grand Canyon," you might want to whisper a simple “thank you" to President Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter—the 39th president of the United States, who died on Dec. 29 at 100—was laid to rest at the Georgia home he shared with wife Rosalynn Carter.

Jimmy Carter, the first former American president to live to 100, arrived back in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. Before the trip home, the former president was memorialized at Washington National Ca

Staff Sgt. Benjamin Garnett, a 2002 graduate of Franklin County High School and former member of the Flyer band and chorus, played trumpet with the 282nd Fort Jackson U.S. Army