FOCUS: A life of service and dedication

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Country musicians Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter are seen with first lady Rosalynn Carter at a reception before a concert to benefit the Carter-Mondale re-election campaign on April 23, 1980. (Public domain)

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First lady Rosalynn Carter, Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale are seen at a ceremony welcoming her back from a Latin American trip on June 12, 1977.

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It was one of the largest gatherings of U.S. first ladies in the nation’s history. From left Nancy Reagan, Lady Bird Johnson, then-current first lady Hillary Clinton, Carter, Betty Ford, and Barbara Bush are at the National Garden Gala: A Tribute to America’s First Ladies in May 1994.

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Former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter are seen at The Carter Center in 2016. (Public domain photos)

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President Bill Clinton awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter at the Carter Center on Plains, Georgia in 1999. (Public domain photos)

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Rosalynn Carter’s official photo as U.S. first lady during her husband’s term from 1977-1981. (Public domain)

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U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter, at left, is seen on a visit to the Tri-State in 1980, during her husband’s primary campaign for re-election. The trip took her to Cannonsburg, Kentucky. (The Ironton Tribune | File photo)