Almost 26 years ago, Daw Rosetta Salazar's life was changed.

The Richmond resident put her name in a drawer and to receive a new home through an ambitious Habitat for Humanity project known as Hammering in the Hills, which built 50 homes in eastern Kentucky in one week.

But Salazar's lock didn't end there.

One of the people building that new home, former President Jimmy Carter.

There were 200 names in there.

They ship the jar up and they pulled my name out and I said, oh, wow, Yeah, they're building my house.

They're building my house.

That's my house.

All these people came from everywhere.

And then we heard, well, you know, President Carter is coming to help build your house.

I said, Oh, yeah, well, that pulled a lot from my heart.

Namely the really excited somebody super special coming to build my house.

They introduced us, shook his hand, gave him a big smile and a hug, thanking him for coming in the first place.

That he was just like talking to you or her or him.

He was a regular person.

He didn't seem to be so hiding, Heidi, because he had been a president.

He did some talking.

He did building.

He picked up a hammer and a nail.

He pounded.

He measured.

He made sure things were level like they were supposed to be.

That made us feel so super special because it was a he had been president of the United States and came to help build a house so we would have a safe roof over our heads.

They made us picnic tables, and I have President Carter's signature on my picnic table.

And this is Carter's signature.

He should be remembered as a great president and as a president who also showed he was a regular person, not just somebody that ran the country and signed bills for this and bills for that and talked to people from this country and that country because he built habitat houses around the world.

He even went to other countries and built homes.

And if a man who was president of the United States can pass a blessing along in helping somebody have a house, I can do the same thing.

And it's all done with love.

Wow.

Salazar ended up getting her neighborhood named Hammer and Hills in honor of Jimmy Carter's project and has gone on to help other families get placed and habitat houses.

President Carter entered hospice care last month.