Her name was Maria---not to be confused with the lady played by Julie Andrews, Maria Augusta Trapp, who died in 1987. Maria Von Trapp’s death in February 2014 marks the end of an era.

Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member of the family music group that inspired The Sound of Music, died on Tuesday at the age of 99, the Associated Press reports.

The last member of the famed Von Trapp family, whose story was immortalized in the "Sound of Music," has died. Maria von Trapp, died Tuesday in Stowe Vermontt on Tuesday of natural causes.

Not that the musical stuck strictly to reality. Maria and Georg DID marry, but years earlier than in the show. The musical changed the names of the seven children from von Trapp's first marriage ...

In honor of the 60th anniversary of “The Sound of Music,” NBC’s Molly Hunter reports for TODAY from the iconic villa that the ...

Maria von Trapp, a member of the Austrian family whose escape from Nazi Germany and subsequent musical career inspired the famed musical “The Sound of Music,” has died at the age of 99 ...

The Sound of Music Family running on Mountain- H 2012 Maria Franziska (nee Von Trapp), the last surviving sibling of the storied Von Trapp family, has died. She was 99. Marianne Dorfer, a family ...

Here’s everything to know about the real von Trapp family and their lives after The Sound of Music. Yes, The Sound of Music was inspired by the lives of the real-life von Trapp family, which included ...

Wife of Captain George Ritter von Trapp, their story was made famous in the musical film, “The Sound of Music” (1965), in which her role was played by Julie Andrews. Born Maria Augusta Kutschera on a ...

(Reuters) - Maria von Trapp, a member of the Austrian family whose escape from Nazi Germany and subsequent musical career inspired the famed musical "The Sound of Music," has died at the age of 99 ...

Although money didn’t appear to be of concern to the family depicted in the movie, in real life, the fortunes of the von Trapp family had faltered during the global depression of the early 1930s to ...