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60 WILL AND DECREE RECORD 28081 —The Augustine Co., Grand Island, Nebr. than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) to cover all expenses of lot and monument. This provision is made on provision that I have not placed a monument on the lot during my lifetime. -It is my wish that the Rev. Mr.Rexroat shall officiate at my burial, providing he is in Nebraska at the tune, for which he shall receive a fee of Twenty -five Dollars (425.00). I give Ten Dollars ($10.00) to each of the four singers who take part in those services. The accompanist shall receive Five Dollars ($5.00). To the Trustees of the Evangelical Orphans Home in Flat Rock, Ohio, I give One Hundred Dollars 0100.00). To the local chapter of the American %tional Red Cross for its use in Grand Island, I give 'PageOne Hundred Dollars ($100.00). I give the same amount t.o the local treasurer of the Salvation 4 Army to be used for the needy in Grand Island. My executors are hereby authorized and directed to pay to any incorporated church organization that may purchase a building 8pa% and proceed to erect thereon a church edifice at the corner of Pine and 11th Streets in the City of Grand Island, Nebraska, the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) providing that work is commenced on such building within three years after my decease and is completed within two years thereafter. The plans for such structure shall be first sub - mitted to my executors and receive their approval. I further provide that if no church is built on that location but a hospital' built thereon, that my executors pay One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) toward the erection of such hospital which shall be of the protestant faith and I give any corpor- ation not organized for profit which may undertake the building of said hospital or church, One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), payable when said buildings are completed, but if such church or hospital has not been substantially completed within five years after my decease, then this legacy shall lapse and the money herein provided for shall revert to the residuary legatees named herein. ?aga, To the Trustees of the Assembly of God's Church, at the corner of 6th-and Sycamore Streets in 5 Grand Island, I give One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) to be used in the outside repair of said church. To my son Charles Otto I give Two Hundred Dollars (3200.00); to my daughter Augusta Darling I give One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00); to my daughter Clara Jewel I give Four Hundred Dollars $400.00), to them and to their respective heirs forever. To each child of my said daughters Anna and Augusta, there being eight such grandchildren at this tine, I give One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) each and I further give to the balance of my grand- children, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) each, at this time there being one child of my daughter Mary, two children of my daughter Martha, two children of my daughter Clara and four children of my son Charles; to them and to their respective heirs forever. In the event that any of said legatees should be minors, the joint receipt of the parents of such minor shall be a sufficient satisfaction of this legacy. To my daughter Dora Fechtner I give One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00); to my daughter Mary Dabercow I * ve Four Hundred Dollars•( 400.00); and to my daughter Martha Brannan I give Four Hundred Dollars (O.00), and to their respective heirs forever. I give and devise to my daughters Clara Jewell and Mary Dabercow Lot One (1) in Capitol Hill, an addition to the City of Grand Island, commonly known as my 12th Street property, to them and to their respective heirs forever; -to my said daughters Augusta Darling and Martha Brannan I give and devise Lot Seven (7) in Block One Hundred Forty -three (143) in Union Pacific Railway Company's Second Addition to the City of Grand Island, Hall County; Nebraska, to them and to their respective heirs forever. To my daughters Dora Fechtner and Anna Blauhorn I give Lot Three (3) in Block One Hundred Twenty - nine (129) in said Union Pacific Railway Oompany's Second Addition to Grand Island, Nebraska, to them and to t'- -.eir respective heirs and assigns forever. To my brother Henry Lee, I give and devise the South Half of the Northeast Quarter (S-2NEa) of Section Three (3) in ToT,mship Sixteen (16), Range Thirteen (13), West of the 6th P.M. in Sherman County, Nebraska, subject to encumbrances, to his heirs and-assigns forever; I also give and devise a�e to him and his heirs forever, my land in Greeley County, Nebraska, more particularly described in a certain warranty deed filed for record in said County and recorded in Book 40 at page 47 of the Deed Records thereof. All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, be the same realty, personalty or mixed property, I give, devise and bequeath to William'Fechtner, William Blauhorn and Arthur C.Mayer and to their successors, to be held in trust for the purpose of sale, collection and conversion into money in order that the provisions of this Will may be conveniently carried out and my wishes as f and I further authorize said persons to sell said real estate herein expressed, be made effective an fur p without first having obtained license from any Court or Judge, e, fo r su ch p ri ce s and on such terms and conditions as they may deem fair, fit and proper and from the proceeds thus obtained, said legacies shall be maid pro -rata from time to time until the provisions of this Will have been carried o " }, no interest, however, shall be paid on any of the legacies herein provided for. How- ever, should -the times be such that my estate should prove insufficient to pay the foregoing legacies in full, then, the church and charity organizations shall be paid in full, but the other legacies dhall be reduced in proportion to the amount of money collected and realized from the sale of properties. Any property, money or real estate remainin -; undistributed after the above legacies have been paid, I hereby give, devise and bequeath to said William Fechtner, William Blauhorn and Art!--ur C.Mayer, to them and to their heirs and assigns forever. 1 Have made my executors residuary legatees with the distinct understanding that they shall make no charge for their services in carrying out the provisions of this - Will. Receipts of the Treasurers of the various organizations to whom I have made bequests shall be deemed as full satisfaction of the provisions herein made for them. page' I hereby direct that Herbert F.Mayer be retained as the attorney for the probate of this Will 7 and shall act as counsel for said executors at a reasonable fee to be fixed by the Probate Court. I hereby direct my executors to furnish two rooms in some Protestant hospital in or near Grand Island, to be selected by them, at an expense not to exceed $250.00 each and upon the door of each room there shall be a name plate, one reading "In memory of Mr. and Mrs.William Otto ", the other shall read "In memory of Mr. and Mrs.Carl Schlueter ". Done at Grand Island, Nebraska, this 18th day of February, 1939• Mrs.Martha Otto Testatrix The foregoing consisting of five pages, was at the date thereof signed, sealed, published and declared b, % said testatrix as and for her Last Will in our presence and we in her presence and at her request and in the presence of one another have signed our names as witnesses hereto. Jessie Overdorff H.R. Jensen CODICIL TO THE LAST WILL OF 14ARTHA OTT 0 I, Martha Otto, of Grand Island, Nebraska., being of sound mind and memory, do make this codicil to my Will executed on the 18th deny of February, 1939, and this codicil shall be a part of -my Last Will and Testament, to -wit: I hereby ratify and confirm said till but with these exceptions, namely: In the second para- graph on pa.Ze 2 of said Jill, Alice Krewold is designated as my sister, that is an error and it was my intention and is now my intention to devise so much of my property as is described on said page 2 "to the two children of my niece Alice Krewold ". On page 4 of said Will, I have given One 1 7 1