City, county and Habitat for Humanity leaders gathered Tuesday to raise a memorial wall for former President Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter's legacy is more than presidential. It's a legacy of serving people. Tuesday, community members and local leaders joined to celebrate and help keep a little bit of that Carter spirit alive.

Houston Habitat will raise a wall with a door for people to sign, symbolizing the many doors of opportunity President Carter helped make possible

Funeral services honoring former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, take place Thursday. A Houston tribute planned Tuesday.

Wade and Shalina Gibson still live in the home Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter helped build in the summer of 1998. HOUSTON, Texas — "It was sad when it came across my phone last night," Houstonian Wade Gibson said. Like many of us, Wade and Shalina Gibson learned of Jimmy Carter's passing on their smartphones.

Carter, a Georgia Democrat who served as U.S. president from 1977-81, died Dec. 29 at age 100. He helped provide housing opportunities in Houston and across the country.

Houston will hold a memorial event Jan. 7 for former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at his home in Atlanta, Georgia.

Tributes to former president Jimmy Carter are pouring in from across the country, including from the Twin Cities. At Habitat For Humanity Twin Cities' Restore Outlet in New Brighton, a moving memorial is underway.

Habitat for Humanity honors Jimmy Carter in Southern Tier