Raabe, ‘Wizard of Oz’ Munchkin actor, dies at 94

Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in “The Wizard of Oz” and proclaimed in the movie that the Wicked Witch of the East was “really most sincerely dead,” has died. He was 94. Raabe, born in Watertown, Wis., in 1915, was a member of the Midget City cast at the Chicago Worldâ??s Fair in 1934. He earned a bachelorâ??s degree in accounting from the University of Wisconsin and, years later, a masterâ??s degree in business administration from Drexel University.