Last 'Sound of Music' Singer, Maria von Trapp, Dies at 99

The lone surviving member of the family portrayed in the film and Broadway musical The Sound of Music has passed away

Maria Franziska von Trapp died at age 99 last week at her family's home in Stowe, Vt., the New York Times reports

Von Trapp was the third of seven children born to Baron Georg von Trapp and his first wife Agathe von TrappThe Sound of Music portrays the story of how the baron fell in love with his children's governess after his wife died of scarlet fever

Upon her marriage to the baron in 1927, the governess, Maria Augusta Kutschera, who is famously portrayed by Julie Andrews in the film version of the story, also became Maria von Trapp. The fictionalized film and stage adoptions of the von Trapp family's story are based on the elder Maria von Trapp's best-selling 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers Read more...