Mary Allin Travers

The music world is saddened by news of the death of Mary Travers.

Mary Allin Travers was an American singer and former member of the group Peter, Paul and Mary, along with Peter Yarrow and Noel “Paul” Stookey. “Peter, Paul and Mary” was one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the 1960s. Travers’ voice helped carry the trio’s greatest hits including ‘Puff the Magic Dragon,’ ‘If I Had a Hammer’ and ‘Leaving on a Jet Place.’

Peter Paul and Mary

Bandmate Peter Yarrow said that in her final months, Travers handled her declining health with bravery and generosity, showing her love to friends and family “with great dignity and without restraint.”

“It was, as Mary always was, honest and completely authentic,” he said. “That’s the way she sang, too; honestly and with complete authenticity.”

Noel “Paul” Stookey, the trio’s other member, praised Travers for her inspiring activism, “especially in her defense of the defenseless.”

“I am deadened and heartsick beyond words to consider a life without Mary Travers and honored beyond my wildest dreams to have shared her spirit and her career,” he said.

The group together had collected five Grammy Awards for their three-part harmony on enduring songs like “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” “Puff (The Magic Dragon)” and “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
In 2005, Travers was diagnosed with leukemia. Although a bone-marrow transplant was apparently successful in beating the disease, Travers died on September 16, 2009, at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Connecticut, from complications arising from chemotherapy.

Mary Travers from “Leaving on a Jet Plane” to “Puff the Magic Dragon” will live on in the music legacy she gave us over the decades with Peter Yarrow and Noel “Paul” Stookey.

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