29+ Katherine Johnson First Husband Pictures. They had three daughters, constance, joylette, and katherine, and moved to newport news, virginia in 1952. Her husband died from a brain tumor in 1956.
Johnson was still calculating trajectories in july 1969 when neil armstrong and buzz aldrin made the first moon landing, and in 1970 when the apollo 13 her husband had died in 1956, and three years later she married james johnson, an army and navy veteran.
Johnson visited her alma mater west virginia state university, which is commemorating her centennial with a statue, on saturday to celebrate. Katherine johnson is a married woman not once but twice. Katherine johnson was one of the first black students integrated into west virginia's graduate schools. Johnson visited her alma mater west virginia state university, which is commemorating her centennial with a statue, on saturday to celebrate.