Former President Jimmy Carter is being honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital before a second service in his Georgia hometown.

Thursday's service will cap off six days of remembrance for Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. After the funeral, Carter will return to Georgia to be buried in his hometown of Plains, next to his beloved wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter.

Former President Jimmy Carter is being honored Thursday at a state funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service in his hometown in Georgia. President Joe Biden, who was the first sitting senator to endorse Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign,