this product would aid in feeding American soldiers in the field, and production was diverted to military consumption, as the US entered World War II. During the war Raabe joined the Civil Air Patrol, serving as a pilot, and flying fire and lake patrol missions as well as serving as a ground instructor. In 1970, he earned a master's degree in business administration from Drexel University. He married a cigarette girl who was his height, Margaret Marie Raabe (1915–1997). They were married for 50 years until her death in a car accident in 1997, in which he was also injured. Raabe published an autobiography, Memories of a Munchkin: An Illustrated Walk Down the Yellow Brick Road. (). As of 2007, he lived alone at the Penney Retirement Community in Penney Farms, Florida. Raabe appeared in an October 2005 episode of Entertainment Tonight with eight other surviving Munchkins, and he made a guest appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on April 11, 2005. On November 21, 2007, he appeared with six other surviving Munchkin actors, including Jerry Maren, at the unveiling of a Hollywood Star for the Wizard of Oz Munchkins on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On September 19, 2009, he appeared on National Public Radio program Weekend Edition Saturday. Raabe still made occasional appearances at Wizard of Oz conventions and celebrations across the country. In 2008 he was honored by the International Wizard of Oz Club with the organization's L. Frank Baum Memorial Award. Death In later life, Raabe resided at Penney Retirement Community in Penney Farms, Florida. He died at a medical center in nearby Orange Park, Florida, on April 9, 2010, at the age of 94 after going into cardiac arrest, as verified by the local coroner. He is buried in Farmington, Wisconsin's Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery. References External links 1915 births 2010 deaths American male film actors Actors with dwarfism Male actors from Florida Male actors from Wisconsin Writers from Florida Writers from Wisconsin People from Watertown, Wisconsin People from Penney Farms, Florida Wisconsin School of Business alumni Drexel University alumni People of the Civil Air Patrol