First, was the passing of the Munchkin Mayor in The Wizard of Oz and now the Coroner, Meinhardt Raabe, the last surviving cast member with any significant dialogue in the film, is gone at age 94.
As coroner, I must aver
I thoroughly examined her
And she’s not only merely dead
She’s really, most sincerely dead!
It was just three years ago that The New York Times did a feature on him.
