The Nobel prizewinner worked tirelessly with wife Rosalynn Carter to eradicate Guinea-worm disease.

Philadelphia and Habitat for Humanity paid tribute to President Jimmy Carter Thursday as the nation said its final goodbyes.

A national funeral service was held for former President Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral this morning, marking the conclusion of his state funeral. Remembrance ceremonies included his lying in repose in his home state, Georgia, and later lying in state at the U.S. Capitol.

As they filed into the front pews at Washington National Cathedral, wearing dark suits and mostly solemn faces, five current and former presidents came together for Jimmy Carter's funeral. For a service that stretched more than an hour,

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, was honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.