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No INip <br />THE AUGUSTINE CO. 13600.12.36 <br />WILL AND <br />DECREE <br />V\ <br />LAST WILL AND-TESTAAENT OF JACOB D.THODE, <br />I, Jacob <br />D.Thode, <br />of Grand Island,Nebraska, being of sound mind and disposing memory, do make and <br />publish <br />this, my <br />last will and testament, in the manner and form following, that is to say: <br />First. <br />I direct <br />that my <br />just debts, if any, and the expenses attending my burial, be first paid out of my <br />personal <br />estate. <br />Second. <br />I give, devise and bequeath all the rest, residue and remainder of the estate, both real and per- <br />sonal, of whi..h I shall die the owner, to my beloved wife, Mary Thode, for her natural life, she <br />to receive the rents, issues and income therefrom and to use so much of the principal of my personal <br />estate as may be necessary for her proper support and- maintenance during her natural life. <br />Third. <br />Subject to the life use thereof bequeathed and devised to my said wife in the second paragraph <br />hereof, I give, devise and bequeath all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, both real <br />and personal, as follows: to my children, George Thode, Herman Thode, Henry Thode, Detlef Thode, <br />Harry Thode, Lena Stueben, Amanda Rehder, and Clara Thode, each an undivided one -ninth (1/9) in- <br />terest therein and to my grand -sons, Clarence Baasch and Harry Baasch, sons of my deceased daughter, <br />Emma Baasch, each an undivided one - eighteenth (1/19) part thereof. <br />Fourth. <br />I nominate and appoint The First National Bank of Grand Island, Nebraska, as Executor of this will. <br />Sixth. <br />I hereby revoke any and all former wills made by me. <br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 7" day of January, A.D. 1931. <br />Witnesses: <br />J.L.Cleary Jacob D Thode <br />Gertrude Waddick <br />We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do hereby certify that Jacob D.Thode, the testator, <br />subscribed his name to the foregoing instrument in our presence and in the presence of each of us, <br />and, at the same time and in our presence and hearing, declared the same to be his last will and <br />testament and we, at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other, have here- <br />unto subscribed our names as attesting witnesses. J.L.Cleary <br />Of Grand Island,Nebraska <br />Gertrude Waddick <br />Of Grand Islend,Nebraska <br />ENDORSEMENT: LAST WILL AND TESTAb:ENT OF JACOB D.THODE. <br />HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA F I L E D MAY 20 1939 PAUL N. KIRK COUNTY JUDGE. <br />CERTIFICATE OF PROBATE OF WILL <br />State of Nebraska ) At a session of the County Court held in the County Court Room in <br />)ss <br />Hall County ) Grand Island, in said County, on the 20th day of June, A.D. 1938. <br />Present Paul N.Kirk County Judge. <br />In the Matter of the Estate <br />of <br />Jacob D. Thode, 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 May 1939, the instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Jacob D.Thode, <br />deceased, was filed for probate in this Court. That on the 20th day of June 1935, said instrument <br />to which this certificate is attached was duly proved, probated and allowed as the last will and <br />testament of the real and personal estate of said Jacob D.Thode, deceased, and the same was ordered <br />to be recorded in the records of the Court aforesaid. <br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court this 20th <br />day of June 1938. (SEAL) Paul N._Kirk,,County Judge <br />HALL COITN`'Y, NEBRASKA F I L E D JUN 20 1938 PAUL .N kid COUNTY JUDGE. <br />