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) ...

There were few dry eyes in Manhattan's Riverside Church Monday evening when Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey paid tribute to Mary Travers by singing "Leaving on a Jet Plane." The memorial ...

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 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.

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.

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.

Singer Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary became a singer at a time when there was no shortage of things to sing about. Raised on folk music, she helped provide a soundtrack to the times that ...