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1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />HSIMA� ) ON <br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA <br />CERTIFICATE. <br />STATE OF NEBRASKA ) I, Paul N.Kirk, County Judge of Hall County, Nebraska, do hereby <br />)s$. <br />HALL COUNTY ) certify that I have compared the foregoing copy of the last will and <br />testament, and codicils thereto, the certificate of probate and final decree in the matter of the <br />estate of Sophia Bockmann, deceased, with the original record thereof, now remaining in said Court, <br />that the same is a correct transcript thereof, and of the whole of such original record; that said <br />Court is a Court of Record having a seal, which seal is hereto attached; that said. Court has no <br />Clerk authorized to sign certificates in his own name, and that I am the legal custodian of said <br />Seal and of the Records of said Court and that the foregoing attestation is in due form of law. <br />I further certify - - - - - - <br />IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court, at <br />Grand Island,this 1st day of September, 1938. <br />Paul N.Kirk <br />(SEAL) County Judge. <br />Filed for record this 1st day of September, 1935, at 2 :00 o'clock P.M. <br />Register of Deeds <br />WILL AND DECREE. <br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA. <br />IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE ) <br />OF ) FINAL DECREE <br />RICHARD D.WESTPHAL, DECEASED ) <br />NOW, on this 9th day of March, 1937, this cause came on for hearing upon the final report filed <br />herein by Henry Westphal, executor of theestate of Richard D.Westphal, deceased, together with <br />his petition for the approval and allowance of this report, settlement of said estate, and his <br />discharge herein. And the court, having examined said report, together with the vouchers attached <br />thereto, and being fully advised to the premises, finds as follows: <br />That the said Richard D.Westphal departed this life on the first day of October, 1935, a resident <br />of Hall County, Nebraska, leaving a last will and testament which was admitted to probate in this <br />court on the 20th day of November, 1935, and Henry Westphal named executor therein qualified as <br />such. <br />That notice was given to all persons having claims against said estate, and time for filing said <br />claims having fully expired, all persons having claims against said estate not filed within the <br />time provided by order of the court, if ary such there be, should be forever barred from setting <br />up or asserting any such claims against said estate. <br />That said decedent departed this life leaving as his heirs at law devisees, legatees, and only <br />persons entitled to participate in the assets of said estate, his widow, Gertrude Westphal of <br />Grand Island,Nebraska, Roy H.Westphal, a son of Grand Island, Nebraska, Melvin H.Westphal, a son <br />of North Platte, Nebraska, and Wauneta H.Westphal, a minor daughter of Kansas City, Missouri, <br />That said decedent departed this life the owner of an estate consisting of both real and personal <br />property. The personal property being rents collected from real estate amounting to $362.50 <br />was fully expended in administering this estate, and that the real estate described as Lot Five <br />(5), Block nineteen (19), Clarks Addition to the City of Grand Island,Hall County, Nebraska, did <br />pass and descend, under the terms and provisions of said will, to'his vridow, Gertrude Westphal, <br />for and during; the term of her natural life, or until she remarries, with a remainder over to <br />Roy H.Westphal, Melvin H.Westphal, and Wauneta H.Westphal, equally, share and share alike. <br />That said estate has been appraised and is not subject to the payment of any inheritance tax, <br />either by virtue of the laws of the State of Nebraska or the United States government, and that <br />