Carly Simon’s Sisters Die of Cancer One Day Apart from Each Other

Carly is not just mourning one sister, but two, after bother her sisters passed away from cancer a day apart from each other.

Lucy Simon, a Tony Award-nominated Broadway composer, died of metastatic breast cancer Thursday at the age of 82, while Joanna Simon, an opera singer, died of thyroid cancer Wednesday at the age of 85.

Carly’s sisters’ deaths were confirmed on Friday.

The sisterly trio also lost their youngest brother Peter Simon, a longtime photographer on Martha’s Vineyard, in 2018 at the age of 71 after being told he had lung cancer.

Lucy got her start in the music industry when she formed the iconic folk duo, The Simon Sisters, with Carly, 75, in the early 1960s.

After they released the song “Wynken, Blynken & Nod” in 1964, Lucy went on to attend nursing school and married David Levine in 1967. They share two children together, Jamie and Julie.

Lucy later returned to the music industry in the late ’70s, and the couple would then produce two Grammy-winning children’s albums in the ’80s — In Harmony and In Harmony 2.

Lucy also received individual success when she became the third female composer on Broadway. Her score for 1991’s The Secret Garden received a Tony nomination that year. Her second Broadway show, Doctor Zhivago, opened in 2015.

Joanna also got her start in the ’60s, debuting in Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” at the New York City Opera in 1962, according to Playbill. The mezzo-soprano performed at the Seattle Opera and with the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra throughout her career.

After retiring from the world of opera, Joanna became an Emmy-winning arts correspondent for PBS’ The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, a role she held until 1992.

Joanna was married to Gerald Walker from 1976 until his death in 2004. She was also with news anchor Walter Cronkite in the final months before his death in 2019.