Aimie Harriet (Platt) Purcell Dittrich was the third child and the first of eight daughters born to C.C. and Annie Platt, arriving March 31, 1892, while they were in Coffee, Kansas.

She married Frank Edmond Purcell, February 27, 1910, in Maramec, Oklahoma. They lived at Crystal, only a mile or two up the road from Papa and Mama and Frank raised mules and horses. Eldora and Nora were born there. Grandfather Purcell had a hotel in Parker, South Dakota, so in 1913 they moved up there and Frank ran the city's electric plant. Charles and Maggie were born in Parker. After Maggie's death in 1918, they moved to Claremont, Oklahoma, and operated a boarding house in conjuction with brother Harmon.

In about 1920, Frank worked for Harmon at the Perkins Ford dealership and Aimie was a telephone operator in Perkins. AnnaBelle was born in Perkins. Aimie and Frank had marital problems and they divorced in 1925, with Aimie moving back to Parker,SD. In 1928, she married Frank J. Dittrich, who had been born in Koningsberg, Austria on March 31, 1879. Subsequent moves took them to Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and back to Oklahoma. They were in Enid in 1945, when Mama passed away there, most likely in Aimie's care. In 1946, the Dittrichs moved to Denver and lived there until about 1955 when they moved to Grand Junction, Colorado. Aimie had a close bond with her youngest child, and the moves to Denver and to Grand Junction were in order to stay close to AnnaBelle, who had been severely burn as a young child.
In 1940, they were living near Kissee Mills, Missouri, in the Ozarks, on a small farm a couple of miles from the nearest road, with only a wagon and team of horses for transportation. With the perspective of an adult, I now know that they were poor as church mice, their only regular income being the sale of cream from the goats and cows they milked. There was never once an unhappy or quarrelsome word between them or ever a critical word about a friend or neighbor. Every Sunday, it was off to church in the wagon and a happy reunion with the other parishioners, sometimes punctuated by a potluck dinner after the service. Aimie was undoubtedly the most generous person ever known. One Sunday, on the way home, she told a friend(with obvious pleasure) of the mittens she was going to knit for a little girl in the Sunday school, and how she had cleverly measured the little girl's hand by holding it up to hers on a pretext of some sort during a conversation. She always had something in her hands, a sewing needle, a crochet hook, knitting needles, whatever, making something nice for someone."
They never had much money, for the
simple reason that almost every time they got a dime, they gave a nickel of it to someone who needed it more than they did. Aimie exemplified the Platt trait of helping out others in the family.

Aimie died in Grand Junction, Colorado, December 1, 1962, of a stroke and is buried there with Frank Dittrich, who passed away in 1969 at the age of 80..

At her funeral, the church was not big enough to hold all the mourners. The pastor talked of her "dining hall". not her "dining room". And it was the largest room in their house. She and Frank had built it that way. The pastor read Proverbs, Chapter 31, verses 10 to 31, as a memorial to her, and it fits her better than anyone. " Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies... The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her so that he shall have no need of spoil.. She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.."

She touched many lives. And all were better for it.