{"id":105079,"date":"2022-10-22T21:54:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T21:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/carly-simons-sisters-lucy-and-joanna-die-one-day-apart-from-cancer\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T21:54:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T21:54:06","slug":"carly-simons-sisters-lucy-and-joanna-die-one-day-apart-from-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/carly-simons-sisters-lucy-and-joanna-die-one-day-apart-from-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Carly Simon&#8217;s sisters Lucy and Joanna die one day apart from cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Carly Simon is mourning the death of her two older sisters, Lucy and Joanna Simon, who died one day apart after both had been battling cancer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The eldest of the Simon sisters, Joanna Simon \u2014 who was a famed opera singer and an Emmy-winning TV correspondent \u2014 died Wednesday of thyroid cancer at 85, according to Carly Simon&#8217;s manager Larry Ciancia.  Lucy Simon, who composed Broadway musical &#8220;The Secret Garden,&#8221; died Thursday at 82 after batting breast cancer, Ciancia also confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Their loss will be long and haunting. As sad as this day is, it&#8217;s impossible to mourn them without celebrating their incredible lives,&#8221; Carly Simon said in a statement obtained by USA TODAY Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;We were three sisters who not only took turns blazing trails and marking courses for one another, we were (each other&#8217;s) secret shares. The co-keepers of each other&#8217;s memories.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">More:<\/strong>Carly Simon writing memoir about friend Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The siblings were born to publishing giant Richard Simon of Simon &#038; Schuster and his wife, Andrea.  Their brother Peter, a photographer, died at 71 of cancer in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I have no words to explain the feeling of suddenly being the only remaining direct offspring of Richard and Andrea Simon,&#8221; the &#8220;You&#8217;re So Vain&#8221; singer&#8217;s statement continued.  &#8220;They touched everyone they knew and those of us they&#8217;ve left behind will be lucky and honored to carry their memories forward.&#8221; <\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">More:<\/strong>Mick Jagger and Carly Simon&#8217;s lost duet &#8216;Fragile&#8217; finally uncovered<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Joanna rose to fame in the opera world and as a concert performer in the 1960s.  She was a frequent guest on TV talk shows.  After her retirement from singing, she became an arts correspondent for PBS&#8217;s \u201cMacNeil-Lehrer News Hour,\u201d where she won an Emmy in 1991 for a report on mental illness and creativity.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img gnt_em_img__inset\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:450px\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/10\/22\/USAT\/9986b33b-3981-4c88-a061-0a72379a1de6-AP_Obit-Joanna_Simon.jpg?ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/10\/22\/USAT\/9986b33b-3981-4c88-a061-0a72379a1de6-AP_Obit-Joanna_Simon.jpg?width=600&amp;height=900&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joanna Simon, an acclaimed mezzo-soprano, Emmy-winning TV correspondent and one of the three singing Simon sisters who include pop star Carly, has died at age 85.\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The eldest Simon sister was married to novelist and journalist Gerald Walker from 1976 until his death in 2004 and was the companion of Walter Cronkite from 2005 until his death in 2009. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Carly and Lucy once performed together as the Simon Sisters, opening for other acts in Greenwich Village folk clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After marrying and having children, Lucy Simon recorded two solo albums, \u201cLucy Simon\u201d (1975) and \u201cStolen Time\u201d (1977), for RCA.  Lucy and her husband, David Levine, produced two Grammy-winning children&#8217;s albums, \u201cIn Harmony\u201d (1981) and \u201cIn Harmony 2\u201d (1983).<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Members of the Broadway community, including actors Steven Pasquale, Jessica Vosk and Sierra Boggess, wrote condolence messages. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;RIP, Lucy Simon. So sad to hear this news. A great woman and writer. That Secret Garden score goes right in the pantheon,&#8221; Pasquale <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StevePasquale\/status\/1583286139170877440\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">wrote on Twitter. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;The Secret Garden was the first show I saw on Broadway. It remains my favorite score. It&#8217;s where I fell in love with Rebecca Luker. And it was all due to the musical mind of Lucy Simon. You will be sorely missed,&#8221; <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessicaVosk\/status\/1583585465730363392\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Vosk wrote. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cHer music is her gift to the world.  In one of her last messages to me she said &#8216;I was going to ask you to carry my voice onward&#8217; and I sat and wept, \u201dBoggess wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Contributing: The Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/10\/22\/USAT\/48605b02-126f-4a2e-bf22-6cd900e024b1-AP_Obit_Lucy_Simon_1.jpg?resize=660%2C372&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/10\/22\/USAT\/48605b02-126f-4a2e-bf22-6cd900e024b1-AP_Obit_Lucy_Simon_1.jpg?crop=2693,1515,x0,y307&amp;width=1320&amp;height=744&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carly Simon is mourning the death of her two older sisters, Lucy and Joanna Simon, who died one day apart after both had been battling cancer. The eldest of the Simon sisters, Joanna Simon \u2014 who was a famed opera singer and an Emmy-winning TV correspondent \u2014 died Wednesday of thyroid cancer at 85, according &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/carly-simons-sisters-lucy-and-joanna-die-one-day-apart-from-cancer\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carly Simon&#8217;s sisters Lucy and Joanna die one day apart from cancer<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":105027,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/carly-simon-pays-tribute-to-her-two-sisters-who-died-of-cancer-a-day-apart\/","url_meta":{"origin":105079,"position":0},"title":"Carly Simon pays tribute to her two sisters who died of cancer a day apart","date":"October 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"CNN \u2014 Singer Carly Simon paid tribute to her two sisters, Joanna and Lucy, who died just a day apart of each other this week, both from cancer. Joanna Simon, 85, died of thyroid cancer on Wednesday and Lucy Simon, 82, died of metastatic breast cancer Thursday, Simon's manager, Larry\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":106084,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/carly-simon-pays-tribute-to-sisters-who-died-of-cancer-one-day-apart-i-am-filled-with-sorrow\/","url_meta":{"origin":105079,"position":1},"title":"Carly Simon pays tribute to sisters who died of cancer one day apart: &#8220;I am filled with sorrow&#8221;","date":"October 24, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Carly Simon's two sisters, acclaimed mezzo-soprano and Emmy-winning TV correspondent Joanna Simon and composer Lucy Simon, died within a day of each other last week, the singer confirmed in a statement on Sunday.\"I am filled with sorrow to speak about the passing of Joanna and Lucy Simon,\" Carly Simon said\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":104882,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lucy-and-joanna-simon-dead-carly-simon-loses-both-sisters-to-cancer\/","url_meta":{"origin":105079,"position":2},"title":"Lucy and Joanna Simon Dead: Carly Simon Loses Both Sisters To Cancer","date":"October 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Musician Carly Simon has lost both of her sisters, Lucy and Joanna, to cancer one day apart from each other. Lucy, known throughout her life and career as a composer on Broadway, died of metastatic breast cancer at the age of 82 on Thursday in her Piermont, NY home. Joanna,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":105743,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/carly-simon-shares-solemn-tribute-to-her-2-sisters-who-died-one-day-apart-last-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":105079,"position":3},"title":"Carly Simon Shares Solemn Tribute To Her 2 Sisters Who Died One Day Apart Last Week","date":"October 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Carly Simon shared a heartbreaking tribute Saturday with People, following the deaths of her two sisters \u2014 who died one day apart last week. 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