Q1: Did Katherine Johnson have children with her second husband?
A1: No. Katherine did not have children with James A. Johnson. Her three daughters, Constance, Joylette, and Katherine, were from her first marriage to James Francis Goble, who died in 1956. James A. Johnson raised the three girls as his own after their marriage in 1959.
Q2: What were the names of Katherine Johnson's daughters?
A2: Her daughters were Constance Goble (later Constance Garcia), Joylette Goble (later Joylette Hylick), and Katherine Goble (later Katherine Moore). All three were born in West Virginia between 1940 and 1943.
Q3: Are Katherine Johnson’s daughters still alive?
A3: Constance passed away in 2010. Joylette and Katherine survived their mother, who died in February 2020 at the age of 101. Both Joylette and Katherine Moore have served as ambassadors for their mother’s historical estate and academic foundations.
