Travers, 68, who lives in Redding, announced last week the National Marrow Donor Program found a bone marrow match for her.Travers announced a year ago she had leukemia, which is cancer of the ...

Mary Travers, Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey Noel Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow sing at Mary Travers' memorial service in September 2009 (Photo by Robert Corwin) ...

Mary Travers Memorial Is Scheduled for Nov. 9. A memorial celebration of the life and music of the folk singer Mary Travers will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday at Riverside Church.

The Saginaw News fileIn this undated file photo, Mary Travers is shown with fellow members of Peter, Paul and Mary — Noel Paul Stookey, front, and Peter Yarrow.To Siusan O’Rourke, Mary ...

After the diagnosis, Travers had two rounds of chemotherapy, one at Danbury Hospital and one at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where she also underwent a bone marrow/stem cell ...

Stephen Chernin/AP PhotoMary Travers at the songwriters hall of fame induction ceremony in 2005. Another pivotal figure in the history of American music has passed away. Mary Travers of folk group ...

For in an era of confusion, tumult and suffering, her moral stances were ahead of the curve. She marched with Martin Luther King in 1963. At the Lincoln Memorial that year and later, during a 1971 ...

Mary Travers. 1936–2009. ... They were at the forefront of the protest movements of the 1960s, performing at the Lincoln Memorial during Martin Luther King Jr.’s epic March on Washington.

However, it was mostly singers who filled that void; early on, Mary Travers was the most prominent. I remember how she constantly flicked her incredibly straight flaxen hair from her eyes.

Mary Travers of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, best known for songs like 'If I Had a Hammer' and 'Puff the Magic Dragon,' died Wednesday after a long battle with leukemia. She was 72.

During an incredible run of success spanning the 1960s, Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers released six Billboard Top 10 singles, two No. 1 albums and won five Grammys.