Agathe von Trapp, Austrian-born American singer, member of the Trapp family (The Sound of Music) died she was , 97

Agathe Johanna Erwina Gobertina von Trapp  was the eldest daughter of Georg von Trapp and Agathe Whitehead. She was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the play and film The Sound of Music. She was portrayed as the character "Liesl".^[1]

(12 March 1913 – 28 December 2010)

Biography

She was born on 12 March 1913 in Austria.
The von Trapps fled Austria for Italy and they came to the United States in 1938. They settled in Vermont in 1942, and performed throughout the country.
She was the first soprano in the choir, together with her sister Johanna von Trapp. After her father's death in 1947, the family ceased to perform. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1948. She later moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where with her longtime friend, Mary Louise Kane, the women operated a private kindergarten for 35 years at the Sacred Heart Catholic parish in Glyndon, Maryland. They lived together for five decades. Ms. Kane reported Agathe's death to the media.^[2]

Of the Trapp Family Singers siblings featured in The Sound of Music, only Maria Franziska (born 1914) survives. Rosemarie von Trapp (born 1929), Eleonore von Trapp (born 1931), and Johannes von Trapp (born 1939) are also alive, but they are half-siblings and not part of the original seven.
Agathe wrote 2003's Agathe von Trapp: Memories Before and After The Sound of Music, which chronicles the true story behind the film and includes dozens of her hand-drawn maps, portraits, and other illustrations.
She died on 28 December 2010 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson, Maryland.^[3]

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