Laurie Platt Winfrey Shnayerson, 83, of Hillsdale, N.Y.

Laurie Platt Winfrey Shnayerson, 83, of Hillsdale, N.Y.

Laurie Platt Winfrey Shnayerson, 83, a veteran picture editor and wife of the late renowned magazine editor Robert Beahan (“Bob”) Shnayerson, died at home in Hillsdale, N.Y., surrounded by family, on February 20 after a short illness. Laurie Platt Winfrey Shnayerson. The eldest daughter of William Vernon Platt and Yvonne Bernard Beardsley of Rye, N.Y., Laurie was born in 1942 in Washington, D.C., while her father was serving as a U.S. Naval offi…