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 ...

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.

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Oprah Winfrey made him famous. Former president Jimmy Carter made him a friend. Both attended the funeral yesterday of Mattie J.T. Stepanek, a Rockville boy-turned-national hero who struggled for ...