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<br />Nebraska, as Executor of this my Last Will and Testament, with the provision that he shall not
<br />charge more than $100.00 for his services in this capacity.
<br />I also do hereby make and appoint my second choice my niece Mrs. Elsa Lassen, of Grand Island,
<br />Nebraska as Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament, with the provision that she shall not
<br />charge more than $100. for her serviced in this capacity.
<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand this 28th day of January, 1938.
<br />Henrietta Mehlert
<br />This instrument was on the day of the date thereof, signed, published and declared by the said
<br />Henrietta Mehlert to be her Last Will and Testament in the Presence of us who at her request have
<br />subscribed our names hereto as witnesses in her presence and in the presence of each other.
<br />Mrs. Dora Buettner
<br />Henrietta Mehlert Carrie M.Nelson
<br />Hall County, Nebraska, F I L E D DEC. 7, 1938, 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 Grand
<br />HALL COUNTY .)ss-Island, in said County, on the 31st day of December, A.D. 1939.
<br />Present Paul N.Kirk, County Judge.
<br />In the Matter of the Estate
<br />of
<br />Henrietta Mehlert, deceased.
<br />I. Paul N.Kirk, Judge of the County Court in and for said County, do hereby certify that on the
<br />7th day of December, 1938, the instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Henrietta
<br />Mehlert, deceased, was filed for probate in this Court. That on the 31st day of December, 1.938,
<br />said instrument to which this certificate is attached was duly proved, Probated and allowed as
<br />the last will and testament of the real and personal estate of said Henrietta Mehlert,deceased,
<br />and 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 />31st day of December, 1938.
<br />Hall County, Nebraska F I L E D (SEAL) Paul N.Kirk
<br />DEC. 31, 1938,Paul N.Kirk,Co.Judge. County Judge
<br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
<br />IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FINAL DECREE.
<br />HENRIETTA MEHLERT, DECEASED.
<br />Now on this 13" day of September, 1939, this cause carne on to be heard on the final report and
<br />account of Albert Windolph, executor of the estate of Henrietta Mehlert, deceased, and the court
<br />finds from the proofs on file herein that legal notice, as by law and the order of this court re-
<br />quired, has been given to all persons interested of the filing of said final report and account;
<br />that no objections have been filed thereto and that said final account and report is correct and
<br />should be allowed and ap;)roved.
<br />The court further finds from the proofs on file herein_, that notice, as required by law and in
<br />accordance with the order of the court herein, was given to all creditors of the deceased of the
<br />time allowed and place appointed for filing claims against the estate of said deceased; finds that
<br />all costs and expenses of administering said estate have been fully paid, as shown by receipts on
<br />file herein; that all debts and claims of creditors against the deceased or her estate, which have
<br />been filed herein and allowed, have been fully paid as evidenced by receipts filed herein; that
<br />all debts and claims against said estate, not filed or allowed, if any there be, are forever
<br />barred; finds that said estate and the succession thereto.are not subject to any Federal estate
<br />tax and finds that the inheritance taxes under the laws of the State of Nebraska on the succession
<br />to said estate have been duly determined and have been fully paid by said executor.
<br />Finds that the deceased died testate on November 22, 1938, a resident of said Hall County,
<br />leaving her s ,.jrviving as her sole devisees and legatees under her last will Mrs. M.F.Ryan, and
<br />Henry Mehlert, Junior,. of Spokane, Washington, children by a prior marriage of her deceased
<br />husband, Henry Mehlert, Mrs. Gesina Bade, her sisterinlaw, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Sophia Brandt,
<br />her sister, of Bismark, North Dakota and the children of her deceased sister, Amanda Windolph,
<br />namely: Albert Windolph, Elsa Lassen, Hugo Windolph, Walter Windolph, Otto Windolph, Clara Schultz
<br />and two grandchildren, Harold Windolph and Phyllis Windolph, children of William Windolph, a
<br />deceased son of said Amanda Windolph, who predeceased the testatrix and that deceased left as her
<br />only heirs at law, said Sophia Brandt, a sister, the children and granchildren of Amanda Windolph,
<br />a deceased sister, above named and the following children of William Bade, deceased brother of the
<br />testatrix, namely: Emil Bade, Irene Bade Bailey, Henrietta Bade Bostrom, Anna Bade Zaboudil,
<br />William C.C. Bade, Frieda Bade Helms, Harry Bade, Carl Bade, Gesi:ena Bade and Mildred Bade.
<br />Finds that the deceased died seized in fee simple of Lot Eight (8), in Block A of Boehm's
<br />Subdivision, located on Lot 16 of County Subdivision of the South Half of Southeast Quarter of
<br />Section Sixteen (16), in Township Eleven (11),North of Range Nine (9) of the 6 P.M. in Grand
<br />Island, in Hall County, Nebraska.
<br />Finds that the testatrix died owning the equitable or beneficial title to undivided interests
<br />In various lands as equitable tenant in common, the legal title to all of which is in the name of
<br />Grand Island Trust Company, as trustee, as shown by certificates of title issued by said Grand
<br />Island Trust Company, evidencing the equitable ownership of the deceased of undivided interests
<br />in the following described real estate:
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<br />1. A one fourth equitable title to Lot Three (3), in Block Ten (10), in Kernohan & Decker's
<br />Addition to the City of Grand Island, in Hall County, Nebraska, evvdenced by certificate of
<br />title No. 2779 -303.
<br />2. An undivided three fifty - fifths (3/55) equitable title in South Half of North Half of
<br />Northeast Quarter and South Half of Northeast Quarter and North Half of Southeast Quarter and
<br />Northwest Quarter, all in Section Twenty -two (22) and South Half of North Half of Northwest
<br />Quarter and South Half of Northwest Quarter and Northwest Quarter of Southwest of Section Twenty -
<br />three (23), all in Township Thirteen (13), North,Range Twenty, West of the 6 P.M. in Custer County,
<br />Nebraska.
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