Maria von Trapp dies at 99 in Vermont. She was one of the original family singers. Her father, stepmother left Austria before WWII. Story made famous by "The Sound of Music" ...

Maria von Trapp died Tuesday in Stowe, Vt, of natural causes, Rebecca Cassel, executive assistant with the Trapp Family Lodge, told the Daily News. She was 99 years old, Cassel said.

Maria von Trapp passed away at her home in Vermont on Tuesday, her brother, Johannes von Trapp, said on Saturday. "She was a lovely woman who was one of the few truly good people," he said.

“Maria had a wonderful life and while we will miss her, the memories of her will live on,” her half-brother, Johannes von Trapp, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive statement. He also thanked fans ...

Maria begins, and that's when the truth about Julie's yodeling comes out. As a result of this slight critique, we get to see the real Maria von Trapp yodel — the REAL Maria von Trapp — and it ...

STOWE, Vt. - Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member and second-eldest daughter of the musical family whose escape from Nazi-occupied Austria was the basis for "The Sound of Music," has died.

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.

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 ...

See photos: Hollywood’s Notable Deaths of 2014 Born in 1914, Maria lived in Salzburg, Austria until 1938 when her family fled from the Nazis. She was the second-eldest daughter of Baron von Trapp.

Maria von Trapp returns to home that inspired The Sound of Music. Seventy years after fleeing the Nazis, a 93-year-old woman whose family was immortalised in "The Sound of Music" has returned to ...

STOWE, Vt. (AP) — Maria von Trapp, a member of the musical family whose escape from Nazi-occupied Austria was the basis for “The Sound of Music,” has died, her brother said Saturday. Von ...

SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) - Maria von Trapp has taken a trip down memory lane to see her old family home just before it opens as a new hotel. Sign up here. Staying in the house for the first ...