Death
In 2004 Travers was diagnosed with leukemia. She received a bone marrow transplant in April 2005, which apparently slowed the progression of the disease. Travers died on September 16, 2009, at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Connecticut, from complications arising from chemotherapy. She was 72 years old.
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