Lillian Gordy Carter former president was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, at the age of 90. In 2010, he had a severe stomach ache which was mistaken as that disease. He has been a fund-raiser and booster for research into a cure for the disease. In 2001, a major nursing center was dedicated in her honor in Plains by Jimmy Carter in recognition of her first years of service to the community as a nurse. In 2011 she was inducted into the Georgia Women of Achievement. Lillian Gordy Carter Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter (August 15, 1898 – October 30, 1983) was the mother
Miss Mary Lillian Duke her arms, resembling the color of her hair and creating a magnificent contrast with the light colors that she was wearing. The white dress, reminds of ancient statues from Greek, which are mostly white in colour. To make the portrait more graceful, Mary had a rose pinned on her dress near her chest and the bright red colour of the flower stands out above everything. The painting was one of the four paintings sent by Benjamin Duke to Sorolla, for his residence in New York, which was then under construction. Nicholas Duke Biddle, a relative of Mary Lillian Duke Biddle,