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| Fredie Garner Platt |
| Contributed by Richard Bradley |
| Fredie Garner Platt was born July 16, 1911, the fifth son and thirteenth child born to Papa and Mama. He was also the last child born on the homestead. |
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| Fred and his older brother Charles were always getting into trouble! One year on the fourth of July, they decided to borrow Papa's shotgun and fire it off to celebrate. Their knowledge of shotguns was pretty slim, and they managed to load it with far too much gun powder. Somewhere there is a picture of a very sheepish Fred holding the shotgun. The barrel blew out on both sides of his left hand. If powder had blown out an inch either way he would have been an amputee!
When they were living at 1304 Main and the folks were gone somewhere,, the two of them decided it would be great fun to take the Shetland Pony, Nellie, upstairs to their room. The problem developed when Nellie was afraid to go back down those same stairs. No amount of pushing and pulling convinced her, and Fred and Charles were in big trouble when the folks returned. On June 8, 1930, he married Enid Townsend, and they built a home in Stillwater, where daughters, Marie, (actually born in Walsh, OK) Katherine, Freda and Phyllis were born. Before 1941 they moved to Los Angeles where their only son Floyd and baby sister Helen were born. |
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| Vi, talented Nellie, and Fred |
| The trouble making clowns, Charles and Fred |
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| Fred and Mama |
| The Fred Platt Family, circa 1947 |
| In later years Fred and Enid moved to Fredonia, Colorado. Fred died in Colorado Springs, Colorado, July, 1995
Enid moved back to California to be closer to her children, and in 2001 celebrated her 90th birthday with a huge picnic. |