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Rosalynn Carter will be buried on Wednesday at the Plains, Georgia, home she shared with husband Jimmy Carter, in view of the front porch where the two often sat.
Her private funeral service concludes three-days of tributes to the late first lady, including a service on Tuesday that saw Joe and Jill Biden, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Laura Bush and Melania Trump making their farewells.
Rosalynn Carter will share a plot with her 99-year-old husband, who left hospice care to make his first public appearance in almost a year when he attended her memorial.
The two were married for 77 years and their love story - along with Rosalynn's humanitarian work - was a major theme of Tuesday's service.
An honor guard from the Georgia State Patrol stand at the casket before the funeral service for former first lady Rosalynn Carter at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's home in Plains, Ga., where she will be buried
Their daughter Amy Carter choked back tears as she talked about her parents.
'My mom spent most of her life in love with my dad,' she noted in Tuesday's meorial service. 'Their partnership and love story was a defining feature of her life. Because he isn't able to speak to you today. I'm going to share some of his words about loving and missing.'
She then read from a letter Jimmy Carter wrote Rosalynn 75 years ago while serving in the Navy: 'My darling every time I have ever been away from you, I have been thrilled when I returned to discover just how wonderful you are. While I'm away I tried to convince myself you could not be as sweet and beautiful as I remember.'
'But when I see you, I fall in love with you all over again. Does that seem strange to you? It doesn't to me. Goodbye darling. Until tomorrow Jimmy.'
Jimmy Carter sat in the front row as his daughter spoke. He arrived at the service in a wheelchair and underneath a blanket bearing Rosalynn's face.
He was joined by his family and alongside all the living first ladies - Melania Trump, Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, and Jill Biden - along President Joe Biden and Bill Clinton.
Rossalyn's funeral service on Wednesday will take place at the Maranatha Baptist Church where she and her husband worshipped.
After the service, the hearse will take her through the town where she grew up, past the church where she married Jimmy, and to what locals call 'the Carter compound,' the property that includes the Carters' one-story ranch house, the pond where she fished, and the security outposts for the Secret Service agents who protected her for 47 years.
Maranatha Baptist Church, where the private funeral service for former first lady Rosalynn Carter will be held on Wednesday
Former President Jimmy Carter has a blanket with his wife Rosalynn's picture on it
James 'Chip' Carter kisses the head of his father, former US President Jimmy Carter, during a tribute service for Rosalynn Carter
Melania Trump arrives for the funeral service
Melania Trump and her fellow former first ladies Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, and Hillary Clinton
Amy Carter with her father Jimmy Carter
At Tuesday's service, Rosalynn was feted by the people who knew her best: her children and grandchildren.
Jason Carter, a Carter grandson, said of Rosalynn Carter: 'My grandmother doesn't need a eulogy, her life was a sermon.'
He talked about how Rosalynn was like all other grandmothers, giving her grandkids a $20 on their birthday and 'almost all of her recipes
