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<br />WILL AND DECREE RECORD
<br />THE AUGUSTINE CO. 842%5 -33
<br />charges against said estate and that said report should be approved.
<br />IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that said report is approved as the final report of
<br />said administrator with will annexed and that he be discharged and his bond released from further
<br />liability.
<br />This matter coming on further to be heard, the Court finds that Chris Reese departed this life on
<br />the 14th day of April, 1935, testate, a resident of said Hall County, leaving a last will in whici
<br />Margaretha Reese is named as executrix, that said executrix departed this life on the 26th day of
<br />!May,1932, and the will was filed in this court on the 20th day of April, 1935, and after due pub -
<br />lication, the same was admitted to probate on the 14th day of May, 1935, which will is in words
<br />and figures as follows:
<br />THE LAST WILL OF CHRIS REESE
<br />I, Chris Reese of Grand Island,Nebraska, make this my last will hereby revoking all former wills.
<br />I appoint my wife Margaretha Reese executrix without bond.
<br />All my debts, expense of last illness, funeral and expense of probating this will and administeriz
<br />my estate shall be paid out of my personal property.
<br />In lieu of the statutory rights in my estate I give my wife all my personal property to be used
<br />by her as she sees fit without let or hindrance by any person.
<br />In addition thereto I give her all my real estate for the term of her natural life, At her death
<br />my real estate shall go into four equal parts and I give to;my son Julius one- fourth of my real
<br />estate; to my daughter Elizabeth Alexander I give one - fourth of my real estate; to my grandchildren
<br />?Pershing, Elaine and Betty May Reese I give one - fourth of my real estate and to my grand children
<br />Louis Poff and Betty Margaret Poff I give one - fourth of my real estate, and to their heirs'foreve ,
<br />subject always to the lire estate herein given my wife.
<br />In addition to the foregoing I give my wife the right and empower her to sell the real estate knovm
<br />as No-709 West Seventh Street in the City of Grand Island,to -wit: Lot Two (2) in Block Nineteen
<br />(19) in H.G.Clark's Addition to the City of Grand Island,Hall County, Nebraska, whenever she so
<br />desires and feels that she needs the money for her care and comfort. She shall have the right to
<br />execute a deed or deeds and make conveyance of said premises and use the proceeds,derived therefr m
<br />as she sees fit.
<br />Any part of the proceeds remaining unexpen4*4dat the time of my wife's death shall descend the s
<br />as my real estate.
<br />:Done at Grand Island, Nebraska, this first day of April A.D. 1931.
<br />Chris Reese.
<br />The foregoing was at the date thereof signed, sealed, published and declared by said testator as
<br />and for his last will in our presence and we in his presence and at his special request and in the
<br />presence of one another, have signed our names as witnesses hereto.
<br />Ruth Littler
<br />Arthur C.Mayer
<br />Herbert F.Mayer
<br />;And attached to said will there is the following certificate:
<br />?STATE OF NEBRASKA ) At a session of the County Court held in the County Court Room in Grand
<br />)ss
<br />COUNTY OF HALL ) Island, in said County, on.the 14th day of May, A.D., 1935•
<br />Present Paul N.Kirk, County Judge
<br />In the Matter of the Estate
<br />of
<br />Chris Reese, deceased.
<br />I, Paul N.Kirk, Judge of the County Court in and for said County, do hereby certify that on the
<br />20th day of April, 1955, the instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Chris
<br />Reese, deceased, was filed for probate in this Court. That on the 144th, day of May, 1935, said
<br />instrument to which this certificate is attached was duly proved, probated and allowed as the lass
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