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 Trasher cemetery. In accordance with Egyptian law she was buried the same day that she died. The orphanage she founded still helps people to this day. Trasher is honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on December 19. Lillian Trasher Lillian Hunt Trasher (27 September 1887 – 17 December 1961) was a Christian missionary to Asyut, Egypt, as well as the founder of the first orphanage in Egypt. She is famed as the "Nile Mother" of Egypt. Trasher was born in Jacksonville, Florida and was raised Roman Catholic in Brunswick, Georgia. According to one