A celebration of life will be held Saturday for longtime Modesto education leader Odessa Johnson, who diedin April at 86.
It will be at 2:30 p.m. in the Modesto Junior College auditorium, 435 College Ave., preceded by a reception at 1 p.m. in the college’s Art Gallery.
Johnson grew up in segregated South Carolina before attending Tennessee State University. She earned her master’s from Columbia University…