Maria von Trapp passed away on March 28, 1987, and is interred in the family cemetery at Trapp Family Lodge." Rin Velasco is a trending reporter. She can be reached at [email protected].

Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member of the seven original Trapp Family Singers — the Austrian family that inspired the 1965 film The Sound of Music --has died at 99 at her home in Vermont.

She arrived wearing “a horrible dress,” but with a guitar, the younger Maria von Trapp told the New York Daily News in 1998, and “she had a different way of teaching. We would go for a walk ...

So long, farewell to Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member of the Trapp Family Singers made famous in The Sound of Music. She died Tuesday, at age 99, at her home in Vermont.

Maria Von Trapp, Inspiration for ‘Sound of Music,’ Dies at 99. UPDATED: The last of seven siblings, she toured the United States and Europe with her family, which inspired the 1965 Rodgers and ...

1.First, Julie Andrews was always at the top of the list for the role of Maria von Trapp. According to The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Musical, writer Ernest Lehman said, "As ...

Maria Franziska von Trapp, the last surviving sibling of the original singing von Trapp family whose story inspired "The Sound of Music," has died in Vermont. She was 99 years old.