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Jane Goodall Honored at Private, Livestreamed Funeral at Washington National Cathedral

The cathedral is sharing a public livestream of the private ceremony featuring tributes from her family.

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.