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 Gordy Carter a white lie'" In 1977 Lillian Carter appeared in a cameo, as herself, in the made-for-TV movie "Lucy Calls the President" starring Lucille Ball. When son Billy's beer business had its ribbon cutting ceremony, a friend questioned Carter on whether or not she would attend. She remarked: "I attended Jimmy's inauguration didn't I?" Together with vice-president Walter Mondale, Lilian Carter was head of US delegation to the funeral of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito. Shortly after her eldest son left office in January 1981, Carter was diagnosed with breast cancer. While her cancer was in remission in April 1983, her