![]() Other documentaries she participated in include In Search of Oz and I Married a Munchkin in 1994, along with Oz: The American Fairyland in 1997. In 1985, she appeared in a documentary called The Whimsical World of Oz which was to publicize Disney's Return to Oz. In her mature years, and especially after her husband's death in 1981, she lectured and wrote on her famous grandfather and his works, and was active in Oz fandom. The Manteles had two children, son Craig and daughter Dorothy. ![]() After her marriage she became a grief counsellor for children. She studied nursing, and married physician Kenneth Austin Mantele on 24 December 1945 but tragically her mother Dorothy died that day. This would have been an unusual arrangement given that Ozma's other maternal grandmother also lived at Ozcot at the time. She spent much of her time at Ozcot, with her widowed grandmother Maud Gage Baum cousin Matilda Jewell Gage went so far as to claim that Maud raised Ozma. Her mother chose the name Frances, though Baum wanted her to be called Ozma but as a child she preferred the nickname "Scraps" after the Patchwork Girl. As an infant she was the dedicatee of The Lost Princess of Oz. Frank Baum, the daughter of Baum's youngest son Kenneth Gage Baum and his wife Dorothy Duce Baum. ![]() ![]() Frances Ozma Baum Mantele (JOctober 9, 1999) was the first granddaughter of L. ![]()
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