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 Miss Mary Lillian Duke Miss Mary Lillian Duke is a 1911 oil on canvas painting by the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla. The painting is part of the collection of the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham. It depicts a portrait of Mary Lillian Duke Biddle(1887-1960), when she was 24 years of age and decided to have a portrait painting of her own. The portrait was painted inside a park, with one of Mary's hand resting on the pedestal of a statue while the other holds a black hat. She was wearing a scarf of the same color that falls on