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<br />WILL AND DECREE RECORD
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<br />to all persons interested in said matter by publishing said notice in the Grand Island Independent,
<br />a legal newspaper printed in said County, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing,
<br />and it appears by proof on file that notice of said order was so given.
<br />THIRD.
<br />The Court further finds that on the 15th day of November, 1944, said instrument was proven,
<br />allowed and admitted to probate as the Last Will and Testament of the said John Pedersen, deceased,
<br />which Last Will and Testament is in words as follows:
<br />LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JOHN PEDERSEN
<br />OF GRAND ISLAND,HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA
<br />IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN.
<br />I, John Pedersen of Hall County, Nebraska, being of sound mind and memory, and considering the
<br />uncertainties of this moral life, do hereby make, publish and declare this my last will and testa-
<br />ment in words and figures following, to -wit:
<br />1.
<br />Unto my beloved childred George Victor Pedersen, Frank John Pedersen sons, and Mrs. Mildred
<br />Herman daughter, I give, devise and bequeath all of my property and relestate of every kind and
<br />nature and where so ever located, to share and share alike and equally.
<br />2.
<br />I hereby nominate my beloved sons George Victor Pedersen and Frank John Pedersen, to be adminis-
<br />trators and executors until estate has been completely settled, of this my last will and testament
<br />and hereby revoke any former wills by me made.
<br />Done this 14th day of November, 1942.
<br />John Pedersen
<br />We whose names are hereto subscribed, do hereby certify that this instrument consisting of one
<br />page, was on the date thereof, signed by John Pedersen, the testator, in our presence and in the
<br />presence of each of us, and at the same time, in our presence and hearing, he declared the same
<br />to be his last will and testament, and we, at his special request, and in his presence and in the
<br />presence of each other, sign our names hereto as attesting witnesses.
<br />William Johnson
<br />Minnie Johnson
<br />and thereto attached is the following certificate:
<br />CERTIFICATE OF PROBATE OF WILL
<br />STATE OF NEBRASKA. ) At a session of the County Court held in the County Court Room in Grand
<br />HALL COUNTY ) ss' Island, in said County, on the 15th day of November, A.D. , 1944.
<br />Present Charles Bossert
<br />County Judge
<br />In the Matter of the Estate of
<br />John Pedersen, Deceased.
<br />I. Charles Bossert, Judge of the County Court, in and for said County, do hereby certify that
<br />on the 21st day of October, 1944, the instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of
<br />John Pedersen, deceased, was filed for probate in this Court. That on the 15th day of November,
<br />1944, said instrument to which this certificate is attached was duly proved, probated and allowed
<br />as the last will and testament of the real and personal estate of said John Pedersen, deceased, and
<br />the same was ordered 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
<br />15th day of November, 1944.
<br />(SEAL) Charles Bossert
<br />County Judge
<br />and said George Victor Pedersen and Frank John Pedersen, named in said Will, were appointed
<br />Executors thereof upon furnishing bond in the sum of $2,000.00, as ordered by this Court, which
<br />bond was furnished and approved; the Court further finds that said John Pedersen, at the time
<br />of his death, was a widower and -that he left the following heirs -at -law and only heirs -at -law,
<br />to-wit:
<br />George Victor Pedersen, a son
<br />Frank John Pedersen, a son
<br />Mildred Herman, a daughter,
<br />all being over the age of twenty -one years.
<br />FOURTH.
<br />The Court further finds that on the 15th day of November, 1944, an order of this Court was
<br />made allowing creditors three months from and after the 13th day of December, 1944, in which to
<br />file their claims against said estate and said Executors one year in which to settle said estate,
<br />and further ordering that notice to creditors be published in the Grand Island Independent, a
<br />legal newspaper published and circulating in Hall County,Nebraska, for three successive weeks
<br />prior to the 13th day of December, 1944, and that a hearing on claims filed against said estate
<br />would beheld at the Office of the County Judge of Hall County, Nebraska, on the 15th day of
<br />March, 1945, at 9:00-o'clock A.M. , and it appears by proof on file that notice of said order was
<br />published as ordered by this Court.
<br />FIFTH.
<br />The Court further finds that on the 8th day of December, 1944, said George Victor Pedersen and
<br />Frank John Pedersen filed in this Court their inventory of the property of said estate, and that
<br />according to said inventory, the deceased died seized and possessed of the following described
<br />property, to -wit:
<br />Lot Four (4) in Block Two (2) of Cogil's Second Addition to Central City, being the West
<br />Half of Lot Thirty -four (T-2 34) in Union Pacific Railway Company's Subdivision of Section
<br />Nine (9), Township Thirteen (13) North,Range Six (6), West of the 6th P.M. in Merrick County,
<br />Nebraska.
<br />South Half of Northwest Quarter (S2NW4) and Southwest Quarter of Northeast Quarter (SW4NE4) of
<br />Section Seventeen (17) in Township Eleven (11) North,Range Eight (8),West of the 6th P.M. in
<br />Merrick County, Nebraska.
<br />The Northerly Eighty -five (N 85) feet of Lots One (1) and Two (2) and the Westerly Two (W 2)
<br />feet of the Southerly Forty -nine (S 49) feet of said Lot Two (2), all in Block Two (2) of
<br />Bartling's Subdivision located on part of Lot Fifteen (15) of the County Subdivision of the
<br />South Half of the Southeast Quarter (52SE4) 6f- Seeti.on Sixteen (16) in Township Eleven (11)
<br />North,Range Nine (9) and part of the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (NE4NE4)
<br />of Section Twenty -one (21) in Township Eleven (11),North Range Nine (9),West of the 6th P.M.
<br />Personal property of the ap�)roximately value of $663.47
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