Pegi Young, Musician and Activist, Dead at 66

Pegi Young, Musician and Activist, Dead at 66
Pegi Young & The Survivors perform with Neil Young during the Farm Aid 2013 concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. On Sept. 21, 2013. AP Photo/Hans Pennink
The Associated Press
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NEW YORK—Pegi Young, who with fellow musician and then-husband Neil Young helped found the Bridge School for children with speech and physical impairments, has died.

Young died of cancer Tuesday in California, according to spokeswoman Michelle Gutenstein-Hinz. She was 66. Additional details about her death were not immediately available.