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Ruth Carter Stapleton cause of death: What happened to Jimmy Carter’s sister?

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Ruth Carter Stapleton was well-known as an American Christian evangelist. She was the youngest sister of former United States President Jimmy Carter. She attended Georgia State College for Women, earned her bachelor’s in English from Methodist University, and her master’s in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ruth Carter Stapleton’s cause of death: What happened to Jimmy Carter’s sister?

Ruth died of pancreatic cancer on September 26, 1983, aged 54. One month after her death, her mother died of breast cancer, aged 85.

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Ruth Carter was born August 7, 1929, in Plains, Georgia, the third of four children in the family of James Earl Carter, Sr., and Lillian Gordy Carter. Besides the former president, Stapleton had an older sister, Gloria from 1926 to 1990, and a younger brother, Billy from 1937 to 1988. All three of them died of pancreatic cancer, as well as their father.

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Stapleton was also known for her involvement in the healing ministry, especially in the healing of memories. Her books The Gift of Inner Healing, The Experience of Inner Healing, and In His Footsteps: The Healing Ministry of Jesus, Then and Now, illustrate her beliefs on inner healing, which involved the healing of memories in which a person would go over their memories and bring Jesus into the memory to help them forgive or be comforted as required by Jesus.

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