[2] Raabe did not hear the words "midget" or "dwarf" until young adulthood, and for a long time believed no one else might also be like him.

After visiting the Midget Village at Chicago's Century of Progress in 1933, he realized he was not alone and took a summer job with the fair the next year.

[6] Raabe continued to work for Oscar Mayer, and claimed to have come up with the idea to sell canned sausages.

[9] Raabe published an autobiography, Memories of a Munchkin: An Illustrated Walk Down the Yellow Brick Road.

In 2008 he was honored by the International Wizard of Oz Club with the organization's L. Frank Baum Memorial Award.

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.