Former President Jimmy Carter attended Plains High School from 1937 to 1941, graduating from the eleventh grade, since the school did not have a twelfth grade. By that time, Archery and Plains had been impoverished by the Great Depression, but the family benefited from New Deal farming subsidies, and Carter’s father took a position as a community leader. Carter himself was a diligent student with a fondness for reading.
Carter was born October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia at the Wise Sanitarium, where his mother worked as a registered nurse. He was the eldest son of Bessie Lillian and James Earl Carter Sr. his parents.
Gloria Carter Spann’s cause of death: What happened to Jimmy Carter’s sister?
Gloria Spann died of complications from pancreatic cancer, at the age of 63. Her tombstone reads, “She rides in Harley Heaven.” Spann is buried in the Lebanon Baptist Church Cemetery near Plains, Georgia, where her parents and brother, Billy Carter, are also buried. She was born in 1926.
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