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Presbyterian mathematician, Medal of Freedom winner Katherine Johnson dies at age 101

Posted February 24th, 2020

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician and a longtime Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ruling elder who was an important contributor to NASA’s space program, died Monday at age 101, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced. She was 101.

John Glenn, Presbyterian Ruling Elder and national icon, dies at age 95

Posted December 9th, 2016

John H. Glenn, Jr., best known as the first American to orbit the earth, died yesterday at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus at the age of 95. What is less known about Glenn is his lifelong membership in the Presbyterian Church and the faith that influenced his life’s work.