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<br />WILL CERTIFICATE AND FINAL DECREE
<br />LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF WILLIAM STRATMA M
<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That 11,William Stratmann of Grand Island•,Webraska,being
<br />of sound mind and dipposing memory,do hereby make,publish and delcare this my Last will and
<br />testament in the manner and form following
<br />FIRST : - I direct that all my just debts, funeral expenses and expenses of my last sickness,
<br />if any4be first paid, by my fceoutrix hereinafter mentioned.
<br />SECOND :_ Subject to the payment of the foregoing expenses and debts,I give,devise and bequest
<br />to my beloved wife,Wiebke Stratmann,all of my property both real and personal and wherever sit
<br />uated and owned by me at the time of my death,my said real estate being described as follows: (I
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<br />Lot Two (2) in Block 40 of Boehm's Sub- division to the City of Grand Island,Nebraska;the I!
<br />West Half of the North -east darter (Wj of NE}) of Section Four (4) in Township Eleven (11) b}-__-
<br />North,Range Eight ($),hest of the 6th P.M.in Merrick Oounty,Nebraska,consisting of 61.60 1 11 ,
<br />aoresalso the Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SE* NWj) and the North Half of the �I
<br />Southwest Quarter (NJ SWj) and the North Half of the Southeast Quarter (NJ SEj) and the Soutb_
<br />west Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SWj of SEj) all in Seotion Thirty -three (33), in Town. I
<br />ship Twelve (12),North,Range Eight (S),West of the 6th P.M. in Merrick County,Nebrasla .I hereby
<br />bequeath all of the above described real estate and personal property to my beloved wife,
<br />Wiebke Stratmann,absolutely and forever,and authorize her to sell the said real estate duting
<br />the administration of my estate without application to or authority from any court whatsoever.!
<br />THIRD : - I name,nominate and appoint my beloved wife,Wiebke Stratmann,as Executrix of this my
<br />last will and testament,and request that she shall not be required to furnish bond as such
<br />Exeoutrix.
<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF,I have hereunto affixed my seal to the foregoing instrument consisting
<br />of one page of typewritten matter this S day of
<br />WITNESSES:
<br />John Clausen
<br />O.A.Vieregg
<br />April,1925,at Grand Island,Nebraska.
<br />Wm Stratmann
<br />We,whose names are hereto subsoribed,do hereby certify that William Stratmann,the Testator;
<br />signed his name to the foregoing instrument consisting of one page of typewritten matter,in
<br />our presence and in the presence of each of us and he at the same time declared the said in-
<br />strument to be his bast Will and Testament,and we at his request and in his presence did sign
<br />;,our names hereto as attesting witnesses.
<br />Dated this S day of Apri1,1925.
<br />John Claussen of Grand Island,Nebraska.
<br />O.A.Vieregg,,of Grand Island,Nebraska.
<br />CERTIFICATE OF PROBATE OF WILL
<br />State of Nebraska,
<br />Hall County, At a session of the County Court held in the County Court Room in
<br />,Grand Island,in said County,on the 25th day of July A.D.,1925.
<br />Present J.H.Mullin,County Judge.
<br />;In the Matter of the Estate
<br />of
<br />William Stratmann,deceased.
<br />I,J.H.Mullin,Judge of the County Court in and for said County,00
<br />.hereby certify that on the 29th day of June 1925,the instrument purporting to be the last will
<br />and testament of William Stratmann,deoeased,was filed for probate in this Court. That on the
<br />`25th day of July 1925,said instrument
<br />to which t his certificate is attaohed was duly
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