Overview
- The service is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. ET at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
- Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, is presiding over the ceremony.
- Family members and additional speakers are set to deliver tributes celebrating Goodall’s life and work.
- Goodall died on Oct. 1 at age 91 while on a speaking tour in California, and the Jane Goodall Institute said she died of natural causes.
- Her decades of fieldwork in Gombe transformed primatology and she later became a leading global voice on conservation and climate.