* Alice M. Smith; Mother of Rosalynn Carter

Alice M. Smith, 94, the mother of former first lady Rosalynn Carter. After her husband, Edgar, died in 1940, Smith supported herself and her four children by working as a seamstress and selling milk and butter. For a steadier income, she later took a full-time job in a grocery store, turning over child care to Rosalynn, her oldest child. On Saturday in Plains, Ga.