Rosmarie Trapp, whose family inspired 'Sound of Music,' dies

Rosmarie Trapp, whose Austrian household the von Trapps was made well-known within the musical and beloved film “The Sound of Music,” has died.

She died Friday on the age of 93 at a nursing residence in Morrisville, Vermont, Trapp Household Lodge introduced. Her brother Johannes is president of the Stowe resort.

Rosmarie was the primary daughter of Austrian naval Capt. Georg von Trapp and Maria von Trapp, and a youthful half-sibling to the older von Trapp kids portrayed on stage and within the film. The household escaped from Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 and carried out singing excursions all through Europe and America. They settled in Vermont within the early Nineteen Forties and opened a ski lodge in Stowe.

“She travelled and carried out with the Trapp Household Singers for a few years, and labored on the Trapp Household Lodge in its infancy when the household first started internet hosting visitors of their residence,” Trapp Household Lodge stated in an announcement.

“Her kindness, generosity, and vibrant spirit had been legendary, and he or she had a optimistic impression on numerous lives,” the assertion stated.

“The Sound of Music,” was based mostly loosely on a 1949 e-book by Maria von Trapp. Georg von Trapp and his first spouse, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, had seven kids. After his first spouse died, Georg married Maria, who taught the kids music.

Georg and Maria von Trapp had three extra kids, Rosmarie, Eleonore and Johannes, who weren't portrayed within the film. Eleonore “Lorli” von Trapp Campbell died in October in Northfield, Vermont.

When she grew to become a U.S. citizen in 1951, she signed her title as Rosmarie Trapp, leaving out von, based on the lodge.

Rosmarie labored for 5 years as a missionary and trainer in Papua New Guinea together with her sister Eleonore, her relations stated. In Stowe, she was recognized for strolling in every single place, continuously pulling her purchases residence in a wagon or cart. She additionally wrote frequent letters to the native newspaper, the place she was given her personal house, “Rosmarie's Nook,” for her tales, they stated. She led sing-alongs, knitting circles, spun wool, owned a number of thrift outlets and beloved to show individuals to sing, they stated.