In May, the Carter family revealed the former first lady was diagnosed with dementia “He's been in hospice now for several months, but they are happy,” Jason Carter said. “They are together.

After leaving the Navy in 1953, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter returned to Plains, where he took over his family's peanut-growing farm while also serving in the Navy Reserve for several years.

He was the president of the United States and the governor of Georgia, but Jimmy Carter often said the "pinnacle" of his life was marrying Eleanor Rosalynn Smith.

After leaving the Navy in 1953, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter returned to Plains, where he took over his family's peanut-growing farm while also serving in the Navy Reserve for several years.