Last Sound of Music von Trapp dies

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member of the singing family immortalised in the Sound of Music, has died, aged 99, in Vermont.

Maria, a devout Catholic, had worked as a lay missionary in Papua New Guinea after her musical career was over.

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