Details released on former President Jimmy Carter's funeral services from Georgia to DC

WASHINGTON – Funeral services for former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Sunday at age 100, will begin this weekend and end on Jan. 9, moving from his home state of Georgia to Washington, D.C.

Carter's family and his Secret Service Detail will carry his remains from the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia, to a hearse on Saturday, which will then travel through his hometown of Plains, Georgia, according to a release from the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region.

The motorcade will stop at his boyhood home, during which the National Park Service will salute him and ring the bell on the farm 39 times, a reference to his service as the nation's 39th president, before heading to Atlanta.

The former Georgia governor's remains will stop at Georgia's State Capitol and then lie in repose at the Carter Presidential Center for public visitations in Atlanta until Tuesday, Jan. 7.

On Tuesday, Carter's remains will be moved to his presidential plane, Special Air Mission 39, where he will travel to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland and then to the U.S. Capitol building.

Carter will then lie in state in the Capitol, where members of Congress can pay their respects during a 3 p.m. service. The public can visit Carter's remains at the Capitol from 7 p.m. to midnight Tuesday and all day Wednesday.

On Thursday, Jan. 9, Carter will be moved to the National Cathedral for a funeral service at 10 a.m.

Then he and his family will travel back to Plains, Georgia, for a private funeral service that afternoon, followed by a burial at his home.

Congressional leaders also sent a letter Monday to Carter's son, James Carter III, detailing the plans.

"On behalf of the United States Congress and the American people, we write to express our sincerest condolences to you on the passing of former President Jimmy Carter," wrote House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, soon-to-be Senate Republican Leader John Thune, and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries."In recognition of President Carter’s long and distinguished service to the nation, it is our intention to ask the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate to permit his remains lie in state in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol."

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