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�� WILL AND DECREE RECORD 28081—The Auguatine Co., Glrand Ialand, Nebr. � i the same in securities that a trustee or executor may invest in under the laws of Nebraska in j force at my death and to deliver or pay the same to my granddaughter. �fary Stephens, when she becomes of age or marries, as m� daughter may elect. At the end of two years and six months after my death. I further direct my daughter, Carolyn Connor Stephens to set aside from th� income of my esta'te the sum of �100.00 per month fo.r the education of my grandchildren, Mary Stepnens and Richard E. Stephens, Junior, �50.00 a month for each of them and to deposit or invest the same as above provided, and to use the respective suma as she sees fit for the education of Nlary Stephens and Richard E. Stephens, Junior. Those sums �or the education of my said grand-- children, my daughter shall continue to set aside until sufficient amounts have accumulated to insure an education fa,r. ea.ch of them. I direct my daughter to deposit or invest those sums .in her oT,un name to avoid the expense of a guardian and provide that she shall not be required to give bond or surety for the han�.ling oP the money set aside and deposited or invested. As each oP � my grandchildren, ��ary Stephens �nd Richard E. Stephens, Junior, becomes of age, I further dlrect that Carolyn Connor Stephens sha1l pay each of them from the net ineome of my eata.te devised and - beque�thed to her the sum of �50.00 monthly respectively from the time each becomes of a�e until my daughter, Carolyn, -sees fit to discontinue them. Should the net income from my estate drop to ha.lf of the net income at my death or other conaiderations make it inadvisable to set aside the sums of �50.00 each for the education of my grandchildren, Mary Stephens or Riehard E. Stephen.a, Junior, my daughter may discontinue- the same until the net income from my estate is back to the net income at my death or other circumstances make it advisable to continue to set aside those sums for their education. Shou�d either or both of my grandchildren die before any sums set aside, or depositec3 �or invested for them or their education have been paid to them or used for them, the provisions for my grandchildren shall lapse and cease and any accumulations for the children or child -so dying shall go to their mother, Carolyn Connor Stephens. I direct that the nrovisions for my grandchildren or either of them shall not be a lien or chaxge on any of my estate, real or personal, owned by me at my death, but shall be the personal obligation of my daughter, Carolyn Connor Stephens. - ITEM FIVE: I appoint my daughter, Ca,rolyn Connor Stephens to be exec�atrix of this will and provide that she shall not be required to give bond or eurety as such executrix. In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in duplicate this -� day of May, L9�-6, at Fremont, I�ebraska. Mary C. Van Metre We, wnose names are hereunto subscribed a witnesses, do certify that the testatrix, Mary E. Van Metre, signed, published and decla,red the f orego�.ng will in duplicate in our presence and in the presence of each of us, at the same time declaring said instrument was her last will and testar�ent and we, at ner request, and in her presenee and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our nam es as witnesses this �" day of May, 19�+6 in duplicate at Fremont, Nebra.ska. Doro'thy M. Nault R. N. of Fremont, Nebraska. Mrs. Henry Christensen of F'remont, Nebraska. ' CERTIFICATE OF PROOF OF WILL STATE OF NEBRA�KA) ss. On this 15tn day of July 1946, the within last will and testament of County of Dodge ) I�ary E. Van Metre also known as Mary E. Corinor Van Metre was duly proved before me Fred C. Laird County Judge of said County, according to law, as the last wi11 and testament of the real and personal estate of said deceased, and the same was admitted. to probate and duly recorded in this office. IN TFSTIP�ONY �^T�iE�REOF, I have hereunto set my hand and official seal the day and year above written. Fred C. Laird ( SEAL) . County Judge. IN THF COUNTY COURT QF DOD�E COUNTY, NEBRASKA. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF � FINAL DECREE �fiARY E. CONNOR VAN AgETF.E, DECEASED. Now on this 29th day of September, 1947, this cause came on to be heard upon the final account and report of Carolyn C. Stephens, executrix of tne estate of Mary E. Connor Van PRetre, deeeased, and upon the petition of said executrix that said estate be settled and closed and it appearing fron the evidence and Uroofs on file iti this court that regula.r notice, as by law a.nd the order of this court required, has been �iven to all persons intereated of tne time and place of examining a_nd allowing sa.id final account, by publication far three successive weeks in a legal ne�rspa�er, publiahed within said Dodge County, as by law provided, �,nd no one a�pearing to ob,ject to said final account and report, the court, on examination. thereof, f inds that the same is in all respects correct and should be allowed a.nd ap�roved. The court further finds from the proofs on file herein tY�at legal notice, as by law and the order of this court rec�uired, has been given to all persons, having claims against the de- ceased or hPr estate, to exhibit and prove their claims; tha,t the �time for exhibiting and prbving claims against said est�te has ex�ire�; that no claims against the deceased or her estate have been filed; that all nurses� , hospital and undertaking bills have been fully paid; triat all costs and expenses of administration, inclu�ing probate notices, have been fully paid; that all persons or creditors having claims against said estate, not filed or allowed, if any there be, are forever barred from making cla.im thereon and all such claims anc� debts, if any, are barred, The court further finds from the evidence adduced th�t the deceased died testate on the 27th day of P�Iay, 19�6 and that she left surviving at her death as her sole and only heirs a,t law, her husband, Riehard T. Van Metre and her daughter, Carolyn C. Stephens and that she left as her sole devisees and legatees, her said husband and daughter and:.:��r grandchildren, Mary Stephens and Richard E. Stephens, Junior. The court further finds that said testatrix died seized in fee simple of the following 2. described real estate, a.11 situated in Grand Island, In Hall County, Nebraska, towit: An undivi ed one half interest �.s tenant in common in fee simple in and to the ?�Testerly One-third (W. 1�3� of Lot Two �2) in Block Sixty-five and the Easterly Two-thirds (E. 2/3) oP Lot Five ( 5) in Block Fifty-six (56) in the original town, now City of Grand Island and Lot Six (6) in Block One Hundred Seventeen (117) in Ra.ilroad Addition to the City of Grand Island, and the entire interest in all of Lot One tl) and Lot Two (2} excepting the rectangula.r tract conveyed to Central Po��er Company 1� feet by 26 �'eet describ�d in Book Seventy-five of the deed records of Hall County, Nebraska, at page 39b, all in Block Twenty-three (23) in Ruasel Wheeler� s Addition to the City of Grand Island, �n Hall County, Nebraska.