Mary Travers Discography

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Mary Allin Travers (November 9, 1936 – September 16, 2009) was an American singer-songwriter and member of the folk 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. Almost unique among the folk musicians who emerged from the Greenwich Village scene in the early 1960s, Travers actually came from the neighborhood. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Robert Travers and Virginia Coigney, both of whom were journalists and were active organizers for The Newspaper Guild, a trade union. In 1938, the family moved to Greenwich Village in New York City, New York. She attended the Little Red School House in New York City, but left in the eleventh grade to pursue her singing career. The group Peter, Paul and Mary was formed in 1961, and they were an immediate success.

Travers’s first three marriages [1. ? (m. 1958-1960), 2. Barry Feinstein (m. 1963-1968), 3. Gerald Taylor (m. 1969-1975)] ended in divorce. She is survived by her fourth husband, restaurateur Ethan Robbins (married 1991), two daughters, Erika Marshall (born 1960) of Naples FL, and Alicia Travers (born 1965) of Greenwich CT; half-brother John Travers;[8] a sister, Ann Gordon, Ph.D. of Oakland CA, and two grandchildren, Wylie and Virginia. Travers lived in Redding, Connecticut. 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. She was 72 years old.