Sept. 17, 2009 — — Mary Travers of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary died Wednesday after a long battle with leukemia. She was 72. Bandmate Peter Yarrow said Travers handled her disease with “great dignity.”
Also Are Peter Paul & Mary still alive? Mary Travers died in 2009 but Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey have continued. The remnant of the history-making trio will perform Friday at the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center. … “We had lived 10 years of a quite demanding schedule—over 200 shows a year plus recording and TV appearances,” Stookey says.
Likewise Did Mary Travers ever marry? Travers was married four times. Her first brief union, to John Filler, produced her older daughter, Erika, in 1960. … In 1991, she married restaurateur Ethan Robbins; Travers lived with Robbins in the small town of Redding, Connecticut, for the remainder of her life.
Did Mary Travers ever date Peter or Paul? Peter Yarrow, who along with Noel Paul Stookey was the long-time partner of the late Mary Travers in Peter, Paul and Mary, has sent a note of reassurance to friends about her final hours. It was “an honor and a blessing” to have been with Travers before she died Wednesday, he said in the note.
Where was Mary Travers funeral?
In a four-hour memorial at Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, two dozen speakers, including Whoopi Goldberg, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts and the former senators George S.
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