Funeral service Saturday at Hampton University for NASA's Katherine Johnson
3/6/2020, 6 a.m.
A funeral service has been set for Katherine G. Johnson, the trailblazing mathematical genius whose calculations for NASA influenced every major space program from America’s first manned space flight in 1961 to the first lunar landing in 1969 to the early years of the Space Shuttle program in the early 1980s.
The service will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, March 7, at the Hampton University Convocation Center, 700 Emancipation Drive on the campus.
A private burial will be held later.
Mrs. Johnson, who was portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures” by actress Taraji P. Henson, died Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, at her residence at an assisted living facility in Newport News.
She was 101.
