Peter Yarrow from the critically acclaimed 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary passed away on Tuesday, January 7, at age 86 from bladder cancer. To honor him and the lasting legacy he left on the ...

Members of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, left to right: Paul Stookey, Mary Travers and Peter Yarrow in 1978. (The Heritage Foundation) Yarrow was born on May 31, 1938, in New York.

Paul Stookey, left, Mary Travers and Peter Yarrow of the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, take a bow during their sold-out concert at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center on March 24, 1984.

Peter, Paul and Mary reunited in 1978 for Survival Sunday, an anti-nuclear power concert in Los Angeles organised by Yarrow, and continued to play together until Travers' death in 2009.

Folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, from left, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, perform at a Los Angeles benefit to aid to Cambodian refugees on Jan. 30, 1980.

Yarrow, who with Travers and Stookey had supported Democratic Sen. Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential bid, met the Minnesota senator's niece, Mary Beth McCarthy, at a campaign event.

FILE - Folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, from left, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, perform at a Los Angeles benefit to aid to Cambodian refugees on Jan. 30, 1980. (AP Photo/George Brich, ...

Yarrow, who with Travers and Stookey had supported Democratic Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s 1968 presidential bid, met the Minnesota senator’s niece, Mary Beth McCarthy, at a campaign event.

Mary Travers, 72, died in 2009, leaving Noel Paul Stookey, 87, as the last surviving member of Peter, Paul and Mary. The trio's songs were part of the soundtrack for the Civil Rights and anti ...

Paul Stookey, Mary Travers and Peter Yarrow at The Greek Theatre in 1978. (Photo by Richard McCaffrey/ Michael Ochs Archive/ Getty Images) The singer-songwriter was born in New York.

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of ...