11/28/2023

An Admiring Public Offers a Fond Goodbye to Rosalynn Carter

For a few seconds, many Americans stop to say goodbye

Margie Ryman wanted to linger, but a Secret Service agent nudged her to move along. Hundreds of mourners were waiting behind her in line to see the flower-adorned casket of Rosalynn Carter.

Everyone got a few seconds to say goodbye.

"I just needed to be in her presence," said Ryman, a 63-year-old Atlanta office manager, weaving through the Monday evening crowd at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, where the former first lady was lying in repose.

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