In a statement, former President Carter said: “Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished.
“Twenty-five years ago, we did not dream that people might someday be able actually to recover from mental illnesses,” Carter said at a mental health symposium in 2003.
First lady Rosalynn Carter greets people at a campaign event in New Hampshire on Oct. 24, 1979.
In late May, the Carter Center, the couple’s human rights group, announced that she had been diagnosed with dementia.
Bess Truman, the wife of President Harry Truman, is the only first lady to have lived longer, according to the National First Ladies Library.
The loss of her father at such a young age forced Rosalynn to assume additional responsibilities alongside her mother.
She wrote several books, including the 1984 memoir “First Lady From Plains” as well as three books about mental health. »
