Geraldine Myers

Dr. Geraldine Guilfoyle Myers passed away peacefully on November 3, 2026.

Wife, mother, grandmother, PhD. A fourth generation New Yorker, she was lured away from her Queens home by a job at the Houston Space center where she extended the trajectory work of Katherine Johnson to allow for travel outside the earth’s sphere of influence thus enabling travel to the moon and beyond. For her pioneering mathematics/computer work at NASA during the 60s, she was one of the women awarded the Congressional Medal in 2024.

Following the decline in space funding in the early 70s, she returned to school to complete her Doctorate in Mathematics at Rice U., gave birth to her daughter and founded/chaired the Computer Science Department for the University of St. Thomas. From there she moved into designing and implementing computer systems for oil and gas companies. Ultimately she moved to San Antonio to dabble in Artificial Intelligence work for the Air Force, designing interactive systems to train technicians responsible for maintaining the complex avionics of fighter jets. The arrival of the internet then sparked her interest so that she designed and ran one of the first online shopping malls, Window-Shopping.com.

But above all, Geraldine treasured her family - her patient, kind and gentle husband, Michael Walters, her insightful, wise and loving daughter, Kristin Myers Eilertsen and her talented and astute son-in-law, Michael Eilertsen. Her grandchildren, Hayley, Ava Marie and Evan gave infinite joy and meaning to her golden years. She never stopped mourning the loss of her grandmothers, her mother, Dora Scott Guilfoyle and her sister, Patricia Kelly.

She was an avid animal lover who volunteered at numerous dog shelters and both fostered and adopted rescued dogs. She spent her final years volunteering at animal rescue shelters, grooming rescue horses and caring for rescue farm animals. Plus, in her spare time, she was a Sudoku whiz! Finally she would like to thank her doctors at M.D. Anderson and Moffit Cancer Centers for their skill and caring during her many years of illness.

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