Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood perform at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 9, 2025.Photo:NBC News/YouTube
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Garth BrooksandTrisha Yearwood— longtimefriends of the Carters— honored late PresidentJimmy Carterat his funeral.
The pair sang the peace anthem toward the end of the funeral service, before the congregation recited the Lord’s Prayer.
Joe Biden at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral on Jan. 9, 2025.ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty
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The country icons spent years getting to know Carter and his wifeRosalynnthroughHabitat for Humanitybuilding projects, and the two couples developed a close friendship.
Months before Carter’s death, Brooks and Yearwood spent the former president’s 100th birthday in St. Paul, Minnesota for the2024 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Week Project.
“He definitely wants to know that we’re working and this is why we’re here. He has a legacy of service and he never stopped serving,“Yearwood told PEOPLE in October. “He’s not physically standing here building, swinging a hammer, but we feel his presence and Ms. Rosalynn’s presence strongly. We’re just two volunteers, but everybody who’s on this site feels that responsibility to make them proud.”
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Garth Brooks, Rosalynn Carter, Trisha Yearwood and former President Jimmy Carter in 2015.John Shearer/Getty
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Yearwood and Brooks previously told PEOPLE they learned a great deal working alongside Carter and his late wife, who died just over a year before her husband on Nov. 19, 2023.
Brooks noted that the former president and first lady would"bicker back and forth"and debate the “right way to do things,” a trait that’s manifested in his relationship with Yearwood, he said.
source: people.com
