Jimmy Carter left mark on Mishawaka and Benton Harbor through humility, Habitat homes

He’d come to help build her house.

He and his wife Rosalynn would pose with her and the kids for a photo on that hot, hurried week in Mishawaka as they did for 22 other families and their homes under construction. It was 2018, and hundreds of volunteers from around the country had come for the Carter Work Project that visits one city around the globe each year.

And in front of those door stoops, Carter’s eyes easily moistened.

Carter died Sunday, Dec. 29 at age 100. His follows Rosalynn's death on Nov. 19, 2023.

Even a few years after Taylor and her four kids moved in, she would look at the “Carter Street” sign at their corner. It stirred memories of an unusual week, she recalled in 2021, “Knowing how much of an impact it is around the world, and we got to do it.”