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STOWE, Vt. (AP) – The second daughter of Maria von Trapp, whose Austrian family was famous for being portrayed in the musical and popular film “The Sound of Music”, has died. She was 90.
Eleanor “Lorli” von Trapp Campbell died on Sunday in Northfield, Vermont. The death was confirmed by The Day Funeral Home in Randolph, Vermont.
Campbell was born in Salzburg, Austria, the second daughter of Georg and Maria von Trapp and a younger step-sibling of the older von Trapp children, who were later portrayed on stage and in film.
The family fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 and went on concert tours through Europe and America. The family settled in Vermont in the early 1940s and opened a ski lodge in Stowe.
The Austrian traditions that her mother brought to Vermont from Europe played a huge role in family life, daughter Hope McAndrew of East Hardwick, Vermont, said Thursday.
While McAndrew said they all knew every word in the songs from “The Sound of Music,” they also knew the songs the family sang long before the musicals on their North American tour.
“They gave great Christmas concerts that they would describe to us. And they were really touching, ”said McAndrew. “She had very fond memories of those Christmas concerts.”
“The Sound of Music” was a piece of music and a film that was loosely based on a 1949 book by Maria von Trapp, who died in 1987. It tells the story of an Austrian who married a widower with seven children and taught them music.
Campbell’s father, the Austrian naval captain Georg von Trapp, and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, had seven children who formed the basis for the singing family in musicals and films. Maria married the captain after Whitehead von Trapp’s death and taught music to her new stepchildren. They have all passed away in the meantime.
Georg von Trapp and Maria von Trapp had three more children who were not shown in the film; Campbell was the second. Campbell’s siblings Rosmarie von Trapp and Johannes von Trapp live in Stowe.
Campbell’s first career soprano sang as a member of the Trapp Family Singers, who traveled internationally and to all of the United States except South Dakota and Hawaii until she married Hugh David Campbell in 1954, the obituary says.
“The life of touring singing requires an exceptional level of discipline and hard work,” said Campbell’s daughter Elizabeth Peters of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday.
“She was a very disciplined woman, and yet she missed many of the things the rest of us enjoyed in high school and college, and yet she was very grateful for all of the travel and experience that she had has, “said Peters.
After Campbell married in 1954, she supported her husband, a coach and teacher, in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island while raising seven daughters. In 1975 the family moved to Waitsfield, Vermont. She taught her girls how to cook, bake, garden, sew, knit, darn, and make butter and ice cream from scratch.
In addition to their two remaining siblings, the survivors include seven daughters, 18 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A service is scheduled for November 6th in Waitsfield.
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This story was corrected to show that the children knew every word about the songs from The Sound of Music, not every word in the musical or movie.
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