Memorial Services Begin for Rosalynn Carter

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Past and current Secret Service agents escort the hearse carrying former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, who died on Nov. 19, in a motorcade that made stops in Americus, Georgia, Monday. (Credit: The Carter Center)

Hundreds of people, including school children, lined up along a motorcade route paying tribute to former First Lady Rosalynn Carter Monday as memorial observances for Carter began in South Georgia and Atlanta.

Rosalynn Carter, 96, died at her home on Nov. 19 in Plains, Georgia, two days after it was announced that she entered hospice care. In May, she was diagnosed with dementia. Her husband, Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, to whom she was married for 77 years, is now 99 and entered hospice care in February.