Last surviving child died (Feb. 18, 2014) of Baron Von Trapp and Maria (real-life singers in The_Sound_of_Music)

Death announcement / news in Entertainment / Show Business online periodical: Maria von Trapp - whose family inspired The Sound of Music - has died, aged 99. A spokesperson for her family has confirmed that von Trapp died while sleeping at her home in Vermont last Tuesday (February 18). Her half-brother Johannes von Trapp said in a press statement: "She was a lovely woman who was one of the few truly good people. "There wasn't a mean or miserable bone in her body. I think everyone who knew her would agree with that." The Trapp Family Singers left Austria during World War II to seek asylum in the US, where they found much success. Maria was the third-oldest of seven children in the von Trapp family. Her step-mother Maria Kutschera von Trapp immortalized the family's history in her memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. It was that book that inspired a German movie that was subsequently adapted by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II into a much-loved Sound of Music stage musical in 1959. FROM: http://www.digitalspy.com/celebrity/news/a553192/maria-von-trapp-of-trapp-family-singers-dies-aged-99.html