Uncle Platts' Parents David & Esther Carman	Carman Cole Reunion Coxsackie NY

Platt and Rena had a daughter, Ruth, who was not quite right. She was to go to a school for the mentally retarded, but they wanted to keep he at home. In her 20's, she fell down the stairs and broke her arm. The doctor came and tried to set her arm, but he couldn't handle her, and Rena wouldn't let her go to the hospital. A blood clot formed, and went to her heart, and killed her. She and I were the same age, and we all felt terrible. Rena also died fairly young, and Uncle Platt married two more times, and never had any more children, but he loved the others in the family. Platt came here from Coxsackie, to help his brother Will, in his grocery store, and post office. Eventually that part of Schenectady was named "Carman" for them. Platt was diabetic, and as he became older, his legs were affected to the point where he had to have his legs amputated, first one, then the other. The kids were always fascinated when he took off his legs to go to bed.

Doris Bond kept in touch with Eddie after the accident, and appreciated all he had done to help her. She went to California, and asked him to come out and see if he liked it. She even paid his way. He liked it a great deal, and over the years he worked his way up to Assistant Director, and worked with Cecil B. DeMille, on "The Ten Commandments", and "The Greatest Show on Earth".

We lost touch for a good many years, because we were busy in different ways. I was raising a family, and working here, and he was involved in Hollywood. Neither one of us liked to write letters, after all, we had to write for my mother when we were young. We moved around quite a bit, but somehow he got my address, and his wife, insisted he get in touch with me.