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Peter Yarrow
1938 - 2025
Peter Yarrow
1938 - 2025
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BORN
1938
DIED
2025
Peter Yarrow Obituary
Peter Yarrow was a singer-songwriter and guitarist with the legendary folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, known for their song "Puff the Magic Dragon."
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Read the full obituary in Legacy's headline news section.
(Photo: Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images)
63 Entries
David Lukacher
June 27, 2025
I knew Peter yarrow from Peter Paul and Mary , and I knew him from Peter Paul and mommy too vhs
and when he visit Alanta for a concert in music with a message
Leslie Redaway
June 24, 2025
Lawrence Allen
June 4, 2025
Sadly, I did not learn of your passing until recently. The news hit me with great remorse that I had not followed your life until it's conclusion. I have attended many of your concerts over the years beginning in 1964 at the Aire Crown Theater. My friends and I waited late after the end of the concert and to our surprise we were allowed to go backstage to the dressing room with PP&M. I remember you as engaged with all the fans and encouraging to those aspiring performers. While it is hard to separate the music with your advocacy for social justice, your overall commitment to a better world is truly legendary. As I listened to the music of PP&M tonight, I feel great loss for the music and this bygone era of hope and love sorely missed in these current dark times of injustice, materialism and exploitation of the downtrodden. God bless and protect you and your family.
Linda Amad
May 31, 2025
Tonight I watched the special "50 Years of Peter, Paul & Mary:. I enjoyed it. My oldest sister took me to one of your concerts when I was a little kid. It was a gift for my Confirmation. We also with my sister's boyfriend who she later married. We all had a great time. I still have the program from the concert! RIP Peter. Say hello to Mary for me, I had long straight blonde her like her,
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Jody brachman
May 2, 2025
I'm good u rip my condolences no rush take care
Harry Simpson
March 30, 2025
Godspeed Peter, and thank you for the wonderful, wonderful music memories with "Peter, Paul and Mary" and some of the anthems of my youth, and beyond. Unforgettable. Again, thank you Peter, and unforgettable.
Tony Vlasak
March 23, 2025
The first time I saw them was 1969 at the Santa Barbara County Bowl. It was an awesome, almost magical night outdoors. RIP Peter. I often play your music.
Deb
March 15, 2025
Loved their music and I watched their story on PBS tonight, they did so much for so many, my condolences to the family.
Bryon Baker
March 7, 2025
This Land Was Made For You And Me brother . And his legacy will live on whereever love and kindness exists .
David Lukacher
March 2, 2025
I knew Peter yarrow from Peter Paul and Mary ,and I knew Him from Peter Paul and Mommy too
VHS , and I knew him when he visit Alanta for a concert
David Lukacher
March 2, 2025
I knew Peter Yarrow from Peter Paul ,and Mommy too vhs , I knew him when he visit Alanta for a concert music with a message
David Lukacher
February 21, 2025
I knew Peter yarrow when he visited Atlanta for a concert music with a message, and I knew him from Peter Paul and mommy too vhs
Lynn Laughlin
February 16, 2025
God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.
Lynn-Dee Gillam
February 16, 2025
I met him and Noel in New Jersey at a festival in 2005. A group came to met them. Both of them gave me a hug. They were amazing. I have a great respect for Peter. He will be greatly missed.
Heather vonHortenau
February 14, 2025
Peter was a friend of my uncle Stan; they played together in the folk scene. I saw Peter at Arise Festival where he was kind enough to read, "Puff the Magic Dragon" to my son. It was so sweet, fans were everywhere, but there he was, interacting with a child who would otherwise be lost in the crowd. It's awesome to see the spirit passed to a new generation.
He will be missed.
David Lukacher
February 13, 2025
I knew Peter yarrow from Peter Paul and Mary
May god comfort the morners of Zion and Israel
Judi Zdziera
February 12, 2025
A friendship that developed deeply over 3 decades... thank you for the privilege of being a part of your life. Thank you for sharing your wisdom of activism and kindness.Thank you for sharing your family with me. Rest in power and peace my Dragon
Chip Fitts
February 6, 2025
HE IS REUNITED WITH MARY TRAVERS IN HEAVEN
L S
February 4, 2025
In honor of Peter's life of giving, We just had a sing-a-long to Puff the Magic Dragon. It was so much fun!
Patricia Cutler
January 27, 2025
I listened to PP&M beginning in the late '60's. I found the three of them to be very important in shaping my moral and political identity. I would possibly remained a conservative to this day, but they rescued me. I saw them in concert several times. With only Noel Stookey alive, I feel a part of me is dying away. Peter's voice was very calming and his words empowered me. I wish his family peace in their loss.
David Lukacher
January 24, 2025
I knew Peter yarrow from Peter Paul and m
Mary may god comfort the morners of Zion and israil
David Asher Lukacher
January 24, 2025
I knew Peter yarrow when he visit Atlanta for a concert. May god comfort the mourners of Zion and israil
andy cason
January 24, 2025
dear peter yarrrow may god blesssyou in heaven
Chip Fitts
January 22, 2025
Hearing Peter, Paul and Mary sing hit after hit. I bought their records. They had
awesome voices. Rest in peace. They rocked!!!!!
Jennifer
January 19, 2025
Celebrating the life of Peter Yarrow he was a talented singer-songwriter and guitarist with a legendary for folk music trio "Peter, Paul & Mary, known for their song "Puff The Magic Dragon." Er all know that he is in a good place now, has reunited with Mary, they are singing for the angels. He will be missed, yet never be forgotten.
David Asher Lukacher
January 17, 2025
I saw him when he visited Alanta for a concert music with a message
Cynthia Westover
January 16, 2025
Being a child in the 60s and putting a vinyl album on to listen to and feel safe. Later in life I was privileged to meet and get to know Peter personally via Operation Reapect. I watched him sit with my son before a performance and it lifted my heart.
David Asher Lukacher
January 14, 2025
I knew him from Peter Paul and marry
M Scott
January 13, 2025
I love Peter, Paul and Mary! Their music will be here forever and sung by everyone. RIH
Maura Mack
January 13, 2025
I will always remember Peter and Paul's performance at the Tribute to Pete Seeger on April 15, 2017 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Afterward, I chatted with Peter and Paul outside the Kennedy Center where fans gathered to greet them. I clearly remember Peter's warm, friendly smile. Thanks for the many meaningful songs, the memories of bygone times, and your activism. RIP, Peter.
Amy Reeves
January 13, 2025
My prayers go to the Yarrow family as we all grew up listening to him and Paul and Mary sing to each of us. He was such a great part of my life and I hope his family knows how much that means. Rest, dear man.
Virginia Pritchett
January 12, 2025
Beautiful music.i missed a book signing he did at Frisco Texas years ago. He was a talented man.
David Asher Lukacher
January 11, 2025
He was a great foke singer
Peter and Mrs Sam Massell, wife of former Mayor of Atlanta.
Sandra Gordy Massell
January 11, 2025
Peter and my husband, former Mayor of Atlanta, were like brothers from the Civil Rights days of the ‘60s and ‘70s. We three had remained close friends through the years, visiting in each other’s homes when our activities took us to Atlanta or NYC. There will never be another one like beautiful Peter.
David Asher Lukacher
January 11, 2025
He was a great singer. May god comfort the morners of Zion and israil
Terri Zezza
January 11, 2025
We are so sorry to hear about Peter passing. We grew with Puff the Magic Dragon as kids. They sang beautiful music which touched our hearts. RIP Peter. The Yarrow family are in our prayers.
Tony Spirito
January 10, 2025
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David Asher Lukacher
January 10, 2025
He was a great singer
David Asher Lukacher
January 10, 2025
He was a great folk singer. May god comfort the morners of Zion and Israel
Joyce Grossman
January 10, 2025
His music influenced my life and views. I was fortunate to see Peter, Paul, and Mary in concert several times. Sincere condolences to his family.
David Asher Lukacher
January 10, 2025
I knew him from Peter Paul Mary.
May god comfort the morners of Zion and Israel
RB
January 10, 2025
A great singer thst so many loved to listen to. "Puff The Magic Dragon" is such a well known song. Prayers and condolences for the Yarrow family, May God be with you in your time of loss.
Carol Chamoff
January 9, 2025
Peter Yarrow contributed so much more than his beautiful voice and musicianship to PP&M- he gave his passion for civil rights and justice. He was a mensch!
David Asher Lukacher
January 9, 2025
He was a great folk singer. May god comfort the morners of Zion and Israel
Jerry Cammarata
January 9, 2025
Times with Peter were philosophical, yet, always balanced with a future he anticipated to be better. Never satisfied with the present, he always worked to make the future better - through sound and through personal deeds and educational programs for children. We all lost a friend and a musical genius. May his memory be a blessing and his life the motivations for our young people to emulate.
David Asher Lukacher
January 9, 2025
He was a great foke singer. May god comfort the morners of Zion and Israel
Jon&Chris Lilienthal-Walton
January 8, 2025
My wife and I had the fortune/pleasure to have dinner at Peter´s home on 66th street years ago ( like giddy children, he and I were spiking the guacamole with extra hot sauce, because a particular guest was overindulging to the exclusion of all others . . . He was such a prankster, as am I).
But for all our remaining days, we´ll cherish the moment when he picked up his guitar and sat on the couch next to me and Christine and played Puff the Magic Dragon for us.
Peter, we already miss you and know that we´ll sit with you again someday, in a land called Honah-Lee!
Jon & Chris Lilienthal-Walton
David Asher Lukacher
January 8, 2025
He was a great Foke singer may god comfort the morners of Zion and Israel
Ann Lin
January 8, 2025
Condolences to the family and close friends of Peter Yarrow,
May the beautiful memories and lessons he taught help you endure this terrible loss.
Dave Mann
January 8, 2025
I was fortunate to see Peter Yarrow perform both at Ravinia in Highland Park, IL and at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles with Peter, Paul and Mary. They are memories that still live with me today as well as the music he and the group created. My sincere condolences to his family.
Randall dykstra
January 8, 2025
a good person and a great singer
David Asher Lukacher
January 8, 2025
He was a great foke singer
Edward Goldman
January 7, 2025
Good evening,
I´m a 1961 graduate of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, and first learned of Peter while auditing Romp & Stomp in either ´58 or ´59.
We didn´t know each other well for the time until Peter´s graduation in 1959, but our path crossed many, many times in the 65 years since.
I even got to ride in his and Mary´s limo from DC National Airport on the way to a giant anti-war demo in D.C. [We arrived from NYC on the same Eastern shuttle]. I was at an event Peter hosted [and of course sang] at his apartment raising funds to stop handgun violence.
And he performed at a major gala for my high school´s fundraising, when he was campaigning about his desire to improve Respect. And we were at several alumni events as well.
I would very much like to know if a friend [me...] might be able to attend his funeral service.[I didn´t have any success searching for info online].
Thanks in advance for your thoughtful response.
Ed Goldman
Cornell `61
Ned Halberstadt
January 7, 2025
The love of friends and family carry you through your grief.
David Asher Lukacher
January 7, 2025
I knew from Peter Paul Mary
May god comfort the morners of Zion and Israel
Howar Banks
January 7, 2025
Enjoyed the incomparable Peter, Paul and Mary at The Gate of Horn in the early 1960s on so many visits that this future PhD university professor and NYC and international documentary producer was left with only ONE burning existential question; "Am I a Beatnik?". Still not certain. So happy to have experienced them! Incredible raw talents so entertaining!!
Ramona Knight (Wall)
January 7, 2025
Condolences. Peter was a great friend to me since High School. Whenever I called, he was there to help me. He will be truly missed.
David Asher Lukacher
January 7, 2025
I rember Peter yarrow when he sang i know and old lady who´ swallowed a fly
David Asher Lukacher
January 7, 2025
He was a great folk singer. May god comfort the Morners of Zion and Israel
David Asher Lukacher
January 7, 2025
He was a great folk singer
faith c.tobin/brad j/herscot
January 7, 2025
Dear Yarrow Family my condolences's on the loss of Peter Yarrow.he'll surely be missed very much and may he rest in peace.best faith/brad
Carol
January 7, 2025
I first saw Peter Paul and Mary at the Carter Barron amphitheater in Washington DC. in 1967. I was a huge fan of the group. They inspired me with their messages, songs, and performances. I went backstage as a fan and was so excited. Peter kissed me and others on the cheek he was a wonderful performer, and I have many fond memories of his songs and his solo performances with the group. I sang puff the magic dragon more times than I can count to my students as a music teacher. Rest in peace, Peter.
Joshua Kronengold
January 7, 2025
Peter's instruction and performance with his son's class at PS6 (which I was also in) was a meaningful and lifelong influence. It's left me with a love of folk music...and ability to do tounge whirls and lip pops (because of Marvelous Little Toy).
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