Meinhardt Raabe, one of last surviving Munchkins, dies in Penney Farms

04/09/10 Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," is dead at 94. Mr. Raabe died Friday at his home in Penney Farms, a Clay County retirement community where he had lived since 1986, said Bob Rigel, president of the Penney Retirement Community. He had one speech in "The Wizard of Oz," pronouncing the Wicked Witch of the East dead: "As coroner, I must aver. I ...

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Meinhardt Raabe, one of last surviving Munchkins, dies in Penney Farms

04/09/10 Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," is dead at 94. Mr. Raabe died Friday at his home in Penney Farms, a Clay County retirement community where he had lived since 1986, said Bob Rigel, president of the Penney Retirement Community. He had one speech in "The Wizard of Oz," pronouncing the Wicked Witch of the East dead: "I thoroughly examined her ...

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