Virginia Coigney

Virginia A. Coigney (October 2, 1917 – December 18, 1997, aged 80) was a civic leader, journalist and author. She married journalist and author Robert Travers in the mid-1930s, by whom she became the mother of folk singer Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary fame. Biography Coigney was born in Piggott, Arkansas, and raised near Albany, New York, where she quit school to become a reporter for the Albany Knickerbocker Press. In later life Coigney was an author and radio/television scriptwriter. She wrote scripts for the soap operas Young Doctor Malone and The Edge of Night. She wrote a biography of Dr. Margaret Sanger, the birth-control advocate. Coigney died in a Greenwich, Connecticut nursing home. She was survived by daughters, Mary Travers and Ann Gordon, as well as four grandchildren and two great-granddaughters.