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Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member of the Trapp Family Singers, has died aged 99. She was the second-oldest daughter of Captain von Trapp's children from his first marriage, and she, her father, stepmother and siblings inspired the beloved 1965 film The Sound of Music. Maria, who was portrayed as Louisa in the movie, passed away at her home in Vermont, her brother, Johannes von Trapp, told the Associated Press.  He said she was a "lovely woman who was one of the few truly good people". Maria and her family fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 and ended up performing as a group around the US and their story inspired the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music, which was then made into the multiple Oscar-winning film. The movie, which starred Andrews as the children's governess Maria and Christopher Plummer as Captain von Trapp, tells the story of a young nun who leaves her convent in Austria to take care of the second von Trapp children, eventually falling in love and marrying the Captain. The real von Trapp family moved to Vermont in 1942 and opened a lodge there which they still run. On the lodge's website, Maria said it was her ill health when she was young that led her father to employ a governess to teach her and her siblings. She wrote: "She came to us as my teacher and after three years became our second mother." Marianne Dorfer, a family friend who runs the von Trapp Villa Hotel in Salzburg told the Austrian Times: "That of course then led to one of the most remarkable musical partnerships of the last century. Via: Entertainmentwise
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