Growing up as the grandson of the 39th US president, Wentzel enjoyed rare privileges like international trips and opening the Panama Canal – the youngest to ever do so On December 29, 2024, just months after celebrating his milestone hundredth birthday, the 39th US president and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jimmy Carter, passed away. He is survived by his four offspring – Jack, Chip, Jeff and Amy – 11 grandkids, and 14 great-grandchildren. Ahead of the late ex-president’s state funeral, scheduled for January 9, one of his grandsons, Hugo Wentzel, is opening up about his final days.
Advertisement Speaking to the Daily Mail, the 25-year-old shared that his grandfather, whom he calls “Papa”, had limited range of motion and speech towards the end of his life in home hospice care in Plains, Georgia. The lifelong humanitarian had been living with stage IV melanoma and lost his wife, Rosalynn Carter, who was diagnosed with dementia, in November 2023. Still, Wentzel, son of Amy Carter and James Wentzel, insists the longest-living former president was “happy with what he got to accomplish, the people he could help in his life”.
“He really, really believes he’s going to heaven, he’s gonna be in a better place. That really comforts me too,” he added. The 100-year-old was also “very happy” about being able to vote for Kamala Harris , Wentzel says.
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