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  William Vernon Platt
William Vernon Platt was born on December 7, 1915, in New York City, New York, to Agnes Booth and Livingston Platt. He had two brothers Livingston and Frank and a sister Priscilla and in Rye the family lived at 135 Grandview Ave.
He grew up in Rye, where his father Livingston Platt served as mayor. He was a fourth-generation Yale University graduate. One of those preceding him at Yale was his great grandfather Thomas Collier Platt, who was a U.S. senator from New York. William was a football star at both Phillips-Andover Academy and Yale.
_.jpg) He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II. His service number was 129306 and William served as a gunnery officer on The USS Charrette and saw action in battles in the Pacific.
The USS Charrette (DD-581) was a US Navy Fletcher-class destroyer that served with distinction in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning 13 battle stars. After initial training, Charrette sailed to the Pacific in late 1943 and spent its US Navy career there. It participated in major operations including carrier strikes on Kwajalein, Eniwetok, and Truk.
The destroyer was involved in the lengthy Marianas operation and the Battle of Leyte Gulf, often screening aircraft carriers and battleships like the USS New Jersey. Near the end of the war, Charrette supported operations in Borneo and conducted patrol duty in the Netherlands East Indies.
 He was discharged as a lieutenant commander.
 William retired in 1975 as president of Marsh & McLennan International, worldwide insurance brokers. But he remained a consultant to its Manhattan-based corporate parent, the Marsh & McLennan Companies, into the late 1980's.
William Vernon Platt, an international insurance-brokerage executive, died May 24, 1995 at Jupiter Island Hospital in Hobe Sound, Fla. He was 79.
A former resident of Rye, N.Y., he lived in Hobe Sound and Siaconset, Mass. He suffered a brief illness, his family reported.
William's wife of 55 years, Yvette Beardsley Platt, died in 1994. He was survived by three daughters, Laurie Shnayerson of Manhattan, Hilary Cole of Hamilton, Mass., and Leslie Huntington of Lyman, N.H.; a brother, Peter, of Essex, Conn.; a sister, Priscilla Hooke of Rochester, and seven grandchildren.
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