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Estate of Ray M. Stine
Late of Southampton Township
Cumberland County, PA, deceased
PETITION FOR PROBATE and GRANT OF LETTERS
File No. J/-D& ,,()5Ct/
To:
Register of Wills for the
County of Cumberland in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Social Security No.
The petition of Timothy R. Stine of 380 Bordertown Road, Woodbury, PA 16695 respectfully
represents that:
Petitioner is 18 years of age or older and the Executor named in the Will of the above decedent,
dated March 20, 2005.
Decedent was domiciled at death in Southampton Township, Cumberland County,
Pennsylvania, with his last family or principal residence at 1481 Newburg Road, Shippensburg, PA
17257.
Decedent, then 85 years of age, died April 19, 2008 at about 3:10 o'clock AM., at Menno Haven,
Chambersburg, PA.
Except as follows, decedent did not marry, was not divorced and did not have a child born or
adopted after execution of the Will offered for probate; was not the victim of a killing and was never
adjudicated incompetent:
Decedent at death owned property with estimated values as follows:
(If domiciled in Pa.) All personal property
(If not domiciled in Pa.) Personal property in Pennsylvania
(If not domiciled in Pa.) Personal property in County
Value of real estate in Pennsylvania situated as follows:
$168,000.00
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$250,000.00
WHEREFORE, petitioner respectfully requests the probate of the Last Will and Testament
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OATH OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA:
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COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND
The petitioner above-named swears or affirms that the statements in the foregoing petition, are true
and correct to the best of the knowledge and belief of petitioner and that as personal representative of
the above decedent petitioner will well and truly administer the estate according to law.
Estate of Ray M. Stine
Late of Southampton Township
Cumberland County, PA, deceased.
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before me this 6th day of
May, 2008
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DECREE OF PROBATE AND GRANT OF LETTERS
AND NOW, this 6th day of May, 2008 in consideration of the petition on the reverse side hereof,
satisfactory proof having been presented before me, IT IS DECREED that the instrument dated March
20, 2005, described therein be admitted to probate and filed of record as the Last Will and Testament
of Ray M. Stine and Letters Testamentary are hereby granted to Timothy R. Stine.
Documents attached:
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Date of Death: April 19, 2008
Social Security No.
Letters Testamentary issued
Oath of Subscribing Witnesses(s) [ ]
Oath of Non-subscribing Witnesses []
Oath of Witnesses(s) to mark) [ ]
Renunciations(s) [ ]
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Ct. I.D. No. 36406
16767 Path Valley Road
P.O. Box 51
Spring Run, PA 17262-0051
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LOCAL REGISTRAR'S CERTIFICATION OF DEATH
WARNING: It is illegal to duplicate this copy by photostat or photograph.
Fee for this certificate. $6.00
P 14329755
Certification Number
This is to certify that the information here given is
correctly copied from an ori:~inal Certificate of Death
duly filed with me as Local Registrar. The original
certificate will be forwarded to the State Vital
Records Office for permanent filing.
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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH' VITAL RECORDS
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(See instructions and examples on reverse)
STATE FilE NUMBER
85 y"
Bb. County of Death
1. Name of Oecedenl (Rrst, middle, lasl, suffix)
Ray M. Stine
5. Atjell1lStBlOhday)
6. Dale 01 Birth {Month, day, year)
7. Birthplace (City and state or I
Oct. 10. 1922 Chambersburg. PA
ad. Facility Name (If not institullon, giYe streel and nunber)
Franklin
Menno Haven
13. Decedent's Education lS<>ecily only hig/1est g'ade completed)
Elementary I Secondary (0.12l College (1-4 or 5+)
12 5+
11. Decedenl's Usual Oc:cu tion Kind of worX done
Kind ot WOllc
Educator
most 01 WOOd life. Do not stale retired
Kind of Bosine$8 I Industry
Public Schools
12. Was Decedent ever in lhe
U.S. Armed Fon:es?
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Actual Residence 17a. Stale
Pennsvlvania
Cumberland
17257
17b, County
204 - 03 - 7946
4. Date of Death (Month, day, year)
A ril 19. 2008
Otl'1er:
I[] Nu"oog Home 0 R.",""co Dolt..,. Speo'ly:
9. Was Decedent 01 Hispanic Origin? IX! No 0 Yes 10. Race: American Indian, Black, White, elc
(II yos, spedly Cube', (SpedM
Mexican, Puerto Rican, etc.) Whi te
14. Marital 9alus; Married. Never Married,
Widowed, Divorced {SpecifY!
Widowed
Did Decedent
Live in a
Township?
Sont:hmqpt:on
17c, l[J Yes, Qecedentlived in
17d.D No, Decedent Uvedwflhin
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19. Mother's Name (Rrsl, middle, maiden surname)
Laura Violet Kelle
2Ob. Informanfs Maiting Acklress (Slreel, cily I town. slate, zip codei
213 Hicko
21b. Date of Disposition (Month, day, year)
17257
21d_ Location (City flown, state, zip code)
Cremation Society of PA
Aller Memorial Home and
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who pronounces death.
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Approximate interval: Part 11; Enler other sianilicaot conditions cootrbJlino to death, 28. Did Tobacco Use Contribute to Dealh?
Onset to Dealh bul not resulting in !he underlying cause given in Part I 0 Yes 0 Probably
El No 0 ",koown
26. Was Case Referred 10 Medical Examiner I Coroner for a Reason Other lhan Cremation or Dooalioo?
Dyes DNo
CAUSE OF DEATH (See Instructions and examples)
hem 27. Pari!: Enler the ~ - diseases, injuries, or ~Ications -that cireclly caused the dealh. 00 NOT enter lenninal events such as cardiac arrest,
respiratory arrest, or venlricular fibrillation wiIhouI showing !he etiology. Us! only one cause on each line.
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(disease or iOjury lhal inhiatedthe
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308. Was an Autopsy
Perfooned?
3Ob. Were Autopsy Findings
Available Prior to Completion
of Cause 01 Dealh?
31. Manner of Dealt1
~rar DHomicide
o Accident D Pendtng Investigation 32d. TUlle 0( Injury
o Suicide D Could Not be Delennlned
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Dyes ON.
338. Certifier (check only one)
Certlfying physician (PhYSician certifying cause of dealh when another physician has pronounced dealh and completed l1em 23)
To lhe best of my knowledge, death occurred due to the cau8e(s) end manner as stated_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 0
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0195982
Harrisburg, PA 17109
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29. If Femaie:
o Not pregnant Wllhin past year
o Pregnantaltimeoldeath
o Not pregnant. but pregnant within 42 days
of death
D Not pregnanl, but pregnanl 43 days \0 1 year
before death
o Unknown if pregnant within lhe past year
32c. Place of Injury: Home, Fann, Street, Factory,
Olfice BuHding, etc. (Specify)
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34. Name and Addless of Person Who Completed Cause 01 Dealh (119m 27) Type I Print
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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
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RA Y M. STINE
I, RAY M. STINE, of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, being
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disposing mind, memory, and understanding, do hereby make, publish and declare this as and
for my last will and testament, hereby revoking all other wills and codicils heretofore made by
me.
FIRST
I direct the payment of my debts and expenses of my last illness and funeral from my
estate as soon after my death as conveniently may be done. It is my wish to be cremated. If
there be no available for my interment, owned by me at the time of my death, I authorize my
personal representative to purchase such interment space with a contract for perpetual care,
using therefore funds from my estate, in such amount as my personal representative shall
consider necessary and desirable, and I authorize my personal representative to cause title to
or ownership of the interment space so purchased to be vested in such person as my personal
representative shall designate.
Further, in this connection, I authorize my personal representative to expend funds
from my estate, in such amount as my personal representative shall consider necessary and
desirable, for the purchase, erection and inscription of a suitable marker for my final resting
place.
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To my sons, TIMOTHY R. STINE and DANIEL J. STINE, I give and bequeath my
firearms, same to be divided between them as they shall agree between themselves.
To my son, DANIEL J. STINE, I give and bequeath any books which I may own and
which he desires. In the event that any of my other children do not desire any of the remaining
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Services book sale at Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
To Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, I give and
bequeath the sum of Five Thousand Dollars [$5,000] for the maintenance and use of the parish
library.
To Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, I give and
bequeath the additional sum of Five Thousand Dollars [$5,000] towards the establishment of
the Doris E. Stine Memorial Endowment for the maintenance and preservation of the Parish Life
Center, care of the memorial gardens; and the preservation and maintenance of the colum-
barium at Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church. It is my intention that this bequest is to taken
together with funds to be received from The Episcopal Church Foundation charitable gift annuity
at my death [which annuity designates this fund as its beneficiary] to fund the Doris E. Stine
Memorial Endowment. No invasion of principal of the Doris E. Stine Memorial Endowment fund
is authorized; only income therefrom is to be utilized for the stated purposes.
To the SALVATION ARMY I give and bequeath the sum of Two Thousand Dollars
[$2,000].
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THIRD
I give, devise and bequeath all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, in equal
shares, unto such of my children as shall survive me by sixty (60) days, provided, however, that
if a child of mine does not survive me by sixty (60) days, the share which that child would have
received is bequeathed to that child's issue, per stirpes.
It is my wish and desire that my farm remain in my family if at all possible. Towards
that end, I give my children the first option to purchase the farm from my estate. In the event
that more than one child wishes to purchase the farm, I direct that my executor shall allow those
children wishing the farm to bid thereon.
FOURTH
I direct that any and all Inheritance, Estate and Transfer Taxes imposed upon my
estate passing under my will or otherwise, shall be paid out of the principal of my residuary
estate.
FIFTH
In addition to the powers conferred by law, I authorize my Executor, in his or her
absolute discretion:
(a) to retain in the form received, and to sell either at public or private sale any real or
personal property;
(b) to manage real estate;
(c) to invest and reinvest in all forms of property without being confined to legal
investments, and without regard to the principle of diversification;
(d) to exercise any option or rights arising from ownership of investments;
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(e) to compromise claims without court approval, and without the consent of any
beneficiary, and to abandon any property which, in my Executor's opinion, is of little or no value;
(f) to file any state or federal income tax return for any year for which I have not filed
such return prior to my death.
SIXTH
I appoint M& T Bank of Buffalo, New York, guardian of any property, including but not
limited to all proceeds of insurance on my life, which passes to a minor and with respect to which
I am authorized to appoint a guardian and have not otherwise specifically done so. In addition
to the powers given by law, I authorize the guardian of the property:
(a) to use such amounts of both income and principal as they in their sole discretion
deem proper for the support, education and welfare of such minor without leave of any Court;
(b) to invest in any property without leave of any Court;
(c) to invest in any property without restriction to legal investments.
The guardian shall not be required to give bond or furnish sureties in any jurisdiction,
and shall hold the property IN TRUST for the minor. I hereby direct majority to be defined as
the age of twenty-one [21] and that no funds be turned over to the minor or adult until they attain
the age of twenty-one [21] years.
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If my trustee, in its sole discretion, determines that it is desirable to do so, my trustee
may end any trust under this deed. This may be done by paying the then-remaining principal
and income of that trust to the person then eligible to receive the income. If any person is a
minor or is, in my trustee's opinion, disabled by illness or other cause and unable to properly
manage the funds, my trustee may pay the funds to his or her guardian or to any person or
organization taking care of the person. In the case of a minor, my trustee also may deposit the
funds in an interest bearing account in the minor's name payable to the minor at majority, or
appoint and pay the funds to a custodian for the minor under the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act of
any state. My trustee shall have no further responsibility for funds so paid or deposited.
I further direct my trustee distribute his or hershare of the corpus and any accumulated
earnings to the beneficiary upon the attainment of their majority.
SEVENTH
Provided always, and I do hereby declare my will to be, that if any person or persons
to whom any estate or interest is given or limited by this my will shall, in any court of law or
equity, or otherwise, controvert the same, or dispute or call in question the validity hereof, or of
any of the estates, limitations, powers, provisos, or dispositions hereby limited or given, or made,
or herein contained, then and in such case the estates, interests, limitations, &c., so hereby
limited, &c., to or in favor of such person or persons so controverting my said will, shall cease,
determine, and be absolutely void to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as if such person or
persons was or were naturally dead. And then and from thenceforth such estates, interests,
limitations, powers, provisos and dispositions shall go and belong to and be vested in the person
or persons who, by virtue of this my will, shall be next in remainder after the person or persons
so disputing as aforesaid: Provided he, she, or they shall not controvert or dispute the validity
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of this my will, or any of the devises, limitations, powers, provisos, or dispositions herein
contained or hereby made.
EIGHTH
Any and all payment or payments of any sum or sums, whether in cash or in kind and
whether for principal or income, payable to the said beneficiaries or any of them, shall be made
upon the sole receipt of the respective individual to whom the payment is made, and free from
anticipation, alienation, assignment, attachment, and pledge, and free from control by the
creditors of any such beneficiary. All shares of principal and income herein given shall be free
from anticipation, assignment, pledge, or obligations of any beneficiary, and shall not be subject
to any execution or attachment.
NINTH
I nominate, constitute and appoint my son, TIMOTHY R. STINE, Executor of this my
last will and testament. In the event of the renunciation, death, resignation or inability to act for
any reason whatsoever of my said son, I nominate, constitute and appoint my daughter,
REBECCA S. STINE-DEMPSEY, Executrix of this my last will and testament. In the event of
the renunciation, death, resignation or inability to act for any reason whatsoever of my said
daughter, I nominate, constitute and appoint my son, DANIEL J. STINE, Executor of this my last
will and testament. In the event of the renunciation, death, resignation or inability to act for any
reason whatsoever of my said son, I nominate, constitute and appoint my daughter, JEANETTE
E. STINE-GORMAN, Executrix of this my last will and testament.
I hereby relieve my Executor from the necessity of posting security in connection with
the Executor's duties as such in any jurisdiction in which my Executor may be called upon to act
insofar as I am able by law to do so.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal to this, my last will
and testament, consisting of nine pages, the first six of which bear my signature in the margin
for the purpose of identification this 20th day of March, 2005.
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Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named Testator, RAY M. STINE,
as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, in his sight and presence, and
in the sight and presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
16767 Path Valley Road
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
SS.
COUNTY OF FRANKLIN
I, RAY M. STINE, the testator whose name is signed to the attached or foregoing
instrument, having been duly qualified according to law, do hereby acknowledge that I signed
and executed the instrument as my Last Will; and that I signed it willingly and as my free and
voluntary act for the purposes therein expressed.
Sworn to or affirmed and acknowledged before me by RAY M. STI N E, the testator, this
20th day of March, 2005.
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Ric a d man, Attorney
Admitted to the Bar of Pennsylvania [#36406]
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
SS.
COUNTY OF FRANKLIN
We, ELAINE L. BUSHMAN and KATHY SMITH, the witnesses whose names are
signed to the attached or foregoing instrument, being duly qualified according to law, do depose
and say that we were present and saw the testator sign and execute the instrument as his Last
Will; that the testator signed willingly and executed it as his free and voluntary act for the
purposes therein expressed; that each subscribing witness in the hearing and sight of the
testator signed the will as a witness; and that to the best of our knowledge the testator was at
that time 18 or more years of age, of sound mind and under no constraint or undue influence.
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Sworn to or affirmed and subscribed to before me by ELAINE L. BUSHMAN and
KATHY SMITH, witnesses, this 20th day of March, 2005.
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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
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COUNTY OF FRANKLIN
On this, the 21st day of March, 2005, before me, the undersigned officer, personally
appeared RICHARD L. BUSHMAN, known to me or satisfactorily proven to be a member of the
bar of the highest court of Pennsylvania, and certified that he was personally present when the
foregoing acknowledgment and affidavit were signed by the testator and witnesses.
In witness whereof, I hereto set my hand and official seal.
Notarial Seal
Sherry A. Rosenberry, Notary Public
Fannett Twp., Franklin County
My COMmission Expires May 5, 2007
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