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Topics => The Departed => Topic started by: LadyVirginia on March 11, 2014, 11:57:30 AM
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I just saw this from last month:
(CNN) -- Maria von Trapp, the last of the singing children immortalized in the movie musical "The Sound of Music," died at her Vermont home of natural causes, her half-brother told CNN on Saturday.
The native of Austria was 99 and lived in Stowe. She died Tuesday.
Maria von Trapp was the third-oldest child of Agathe Whitehead and Capt. Georg von Trapp. The couple had seven children: Rupert, Agathe, Maria, Werner, Hedwig, Johanna and Martina.
Georg von Trapp's second wife, Maria Kutschera von Trapp, wrote a book titled "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers," which sparked two German-made movies and "The Sound of Music."
(http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/22/showbiz/obit-maria-von-trapp/index.html?iid=article_sidebar)
When I was a kid the Sound of Music was my favorite movie. I have the book somewhere. I saw it at a rummage sale a few years ago. I hadn't known it was a book first.
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"The Trapps fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 and moved to the United States."
By 2018 their decendants might be fleeing another batch of fascists, that would be ironic.
RIP Maria.