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
Lillian D. Rock Lillian D. Rock Lillian D. Rock (1896-1974) was an American lawyer and political activist. Rock is best remembered as the founder in 1935 of the League for a Woman President and Vice President. Lillian D. Rock was born August 6, 1896 in New York City to Joel Rock and the former Ida Libby Gross. Following high school she obtained an undergraduate degree before enrolling in Brooklyn Law School, from which she graduated in 1923. She passed the New York state bar exam in 1925 and entered practice with her brother Nathaniel as part of the New York City law firm