This video is no longer available. “We have known kings and queens, and we’ve known presidents and prime ministers, but the most extraordinary person whom I have ever known in my life is Mattie ...

Former President Jimmy Carter joined more than a thousand mourners Monday at a funeral for a beloved child poet, remembering little Mattie Stepanek as "the most extraordinary person I have ever known.

Amid the former presidents, members of Congress, lobbyists, princes and prime ministers at Jimmy Carter’s funeral sat a woman in a wheelchair. Behind her was the ventilator she needs to survive a ...

Some 1,700 mourners turn out for the funeral of 13-year-old Mattie Stepanek Some 1,700 mourners gathered Monday in Wheaton, Md., for a two-hour funeral to remember Mattie Stepanek, the inspirational ...