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PETITION FOR GRANT OF LETTERS
REGISTER OF WILLS OF CUMBERLAND COUNT', PENNSYLVANIA
Petitioner(s) named below, who is/are 18 years of age or older, apply(ies) for Letters as specified below, and in
support thereof aver(s) the following and respectfully request(s) the grant of Letters in the appropriate form:
Decedent's Information
Name: Doris M. Rubel File No: ~ ~ I ~ - ~~
a/k/a: (Assigned by Register)
a/k/a:
a/Ida: Social Security No: 210-12-9411
Date of Death: 05/25/2012 Age at death: 86
Decedent was domiciled at death in Cumberland County, pennsylvania (Stare) with his/her last
principal residence at 526 Appalachian Avenue. Mechanicsbure. Upper Allen Township. Cumberland County. PA 17055
Street address, Post Omce and Zip Code City, Township or Borough County
Decedent died at 526 Appalachian Avenue. Mechanicsbure. Upper Allen Township. Cumberland County. PA 17055
Street address, Post Office and Zip Code City, Township or Borough County State
Estimate of value of decedent's property at death:
Ijdomici[ed in Pennsylvania ............................ All personal property $
!f not domiciled in Pennsylvania ........................ Personal property in Pennsylvania $
If not domiciled in Pennsy/vania ........................ Personal property in County $
I'a[ue ojrea! estate in Pennsylvania ......................................................... $ 1 50,000.00
TOTAL ESTIMATED VALti E.... $ 150.000.00
Real estate in Pennsylvania situated at: 526 Appalachian Avenue. Mechanicsbure, Upper Allen Twn., Cumberland County, PA 17055
(Attach additional sheers, i(necessarvJ Street address, Post Office and Zip Code City, Township or Borough County
® A. Petition for Probate and Grant of Letters Testamentary
Petitioner(s) aver(s) he/she/they is/are the Executor(s) named in the last Will of the Decedent, dated April 26, 2012 and Codicil(s)
thereto dated n/a
State relevant circumstances (e.g. renunciation, death of executor, etu)
Exceptas follows: after the execution ofthe instmment(s)offered forprobate Decedent did notmarry, was not divorced, was no[aparty to spending
divorce proceeding wherein the grounds for divorce had been established as defined in 23 Pa. C.S. Fi 3323(8), and did not have a child bom or
adopted; and Decedent was neither the victim of a killing nor ever adjudicated an incapacitated person.
Q NO EXCEPTIONS ®EXCEPTIONS
B. Petition for Grant of Letters of Administration (if applirableJ
c. t.a., d. b. n., d. b. n.c. t. a., pendente life, duran[e absentia, durance minoritate
If Administration, c.t.a. or d.b.n.c.t.a., enter date of Will in Section A above and complete list of heirs.
Except as follows: Decedent was not a party to a pending divorce proceeding wherein the grounds fbr divorce had been established as defined
in 23 Pa. C.S. § 3323(8) and was neither the victim of a killing nor ever adjudicated an incapacitated person.
O NO EXCEPTIONS ~ EXCEPTIONS
Petitioner(s), afteraproper search has/have ascertained[hat Decedent left no Will and was survived by [he followings fany)an~
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Oath of Personal Representative
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA }
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Petitioner(s) Printed Name Petitioner(s) Printed Addrese
Jan B. Castner 1048 Mountaindale Drive Ma sville PA 17053 ~RPI'~AN~J LUi~~fT
Keith B. Munshower 213 Putters Circle, Dillsbur , PA 17019 ~~
The Petitioner(s) above-named swear(s) or affirm(s) the statements in the for going Peti ' are true and wrtect to the best of the knowledge and belief
of Petitioner(s) and that, as Personal Representative(s) of the Deter tnt, t t etitioner will well and truly administer the estate actor ng to law.
Sworn to or zffirmed and subscribed before l ~ Date G TQ ZO
me t{rjs ~~lt day of P ,r~ Date
Rv/ t 4 / 11 ~7 610 / j~(,tQ {'1,94V~~ Date
For the 2egis[er
Date
BOND Required: ~ YES ~ NO
FEES:
Letters .................... .. $
( ~) Short Certificate(s).... . .
( )Renunciation(s)...... .. .
( )Codicil(s) .......... .. .
( )Affidavit(s)......... .. .
Bond ..................... ...
Commission ............... ...
Other .1\ ..... ... 1 S
Automation Fee ............ ...
JCS Fee . .................
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TOTAL .................. ... $ --V66
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DECREE OF THE REGISTER
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To the Register of Wills:
Please enter my appearance by my signature below:
Attorney Signature:
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Pri d Name: Craig A. Hatch, Esquire
Su reme Court
ID Number: 76361
Firm Name: Gates, Halbmner, Hatch & Guise, P.C.
Address: 1013 Mumma Rna Cnite 1(10
~Fne_ PA 1704"i
Phone: (717)731-9600
Fax: (717 731-9627
Email: ~' 1-10*~ QCat• 1 ~~Firm rnm
AND NOW, ~I ~?~~ D ~ J ~ Q ~ ~ 6 , in consideration of the foregoing Petition,
satisfactory proof having been presented before me, IT IS DECREED that Letters Testamentary
are hereby granted to Jan B. Castner and Keith B. Munshower, Co-Executor
in the above estate and (if applicable) that
the instmment(s) dated April 26 2012
described in the Petition be admitted to probate and filed of record, as the fast Will (and
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Oath of Personal Representative
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLV ANfA }
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The Petitioner(s) above-named swear(s) or affirm(s) the statements in
of Petitioner(s) and that, as Personal Representative(s) of the Deced
Sworn to or affirmed and subscribed b~ey-f.~ore
me this day of ~t1~,(A[L~
By:
h Register
BOND Required:~YES ~NO
FEES:
Letters ...................... $
( ) Sltort Certificate(s)..... .
( )Renunciation(s)........ .
( )Codicil(s) ............ .
( )Affidavit(s)........... .
Bond .. ......................
Comm ission ................. .
Other ........
To the Register of Wilfs:
Please enter my appear
Attorney Signature:
ntld Name:
rreme Court
Number:
Firm Name:
Address:
my signature below:
Automation Fee........ .
1CS Fee ....................
TOTAL .................. .. $
Phone:
Fax:
Email:
DECREE OF THE REGISTER
Estate of
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File No:
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proof having been presented before me, IT IS DECREED that Letters _
are hereby granted to
in tht: above estate and (if applicable) that
}(e instrument(s) dated
iescribed in the Petition be admitted to probate and filed of record as the last Will (and Codicil(s)) of Decedent.
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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
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I, DORIS M. RUBEL, now of 526 Appalachian Avenue, Mechanicsburg, Cuerland "' r--
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County, Pennsylvania, 17055, do publish and declaze this to be my Last Will and Tes ent,
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hereby revoking all other prior wills and codicils made by me.
FIRST: Family Backgrouud and Appointment of Executor.
(A) Family and Background Information. I am not currently married. My children are
JAN BRYAN CASTNER, NADINE RUPICH and SYDNEY CASTNER, formerly known as
PATRICIA CASTNER Throughout this Will, aze JAN BRYAN CASTNER, NADINE
RUPICH and SYDNEY CASTNER will be referred to as "my children". The word "issue" will
include my children as well as my other descendants.
(B) Appointment of Ezecutor. I appoint as my Executors (all hereinafter referred to
as Executor) under this Will, the following named persons to serve without bond and without
being required to account to any Court:
Executora: My son, JAN BRYAN CASTNER and my @;randson,
KEITH MUNSHOWER to act jointly.
SECOND: Funeral and Last Illness Eapenaea: Taxes.
(A) Eznenses of Funeral sud Last Illness. I direct my Executor to pay my funeral
expenses and the expenses of my last illness from my estate.
(B) Tazes. I direct my Executor to pay any and all estate, inheritance, succession,
legacy, transfer and other death taxes or duties, by whatever name called, including any and all
interest and penalties thereon, imposed under the laws of any jurisdiction by reason of my death,
upon or with respect to any and all property included in my gross estate fir the purpose of such
taxes, whether such property passes under or outside of this Will, out of my residuary estate,
without being prorated or apportioned among or charged against the respective devises, legatees,
beneficiazies, transferees, or other recipients of any such property or chazged against any property
passing or which may have passed to any of them. The Executor shall nat be entitled to
reimbursement for any portion of any such taxes from any such person.
THIRD: Tangible Personal Property. Except for those items excluded below and
those items enumerated in the Letter of Instruction, I bequeath to my children, JAN BRYAN
CASTNER, NADINE RUPICH and SYDNEY CASTNER, and my grandson, KEITH
MUNSHOWER, living at the time of my death, all tangible personal property, including but not
limited to clothing, jewelry, heirlooms, furniture, personal effects, motor vehicles, and all other
similaz articles, which I own, and the insurance thereon, to be divided between them as they may
select in as neazly equal shazes as is practical. If my children, JAN BRYAN CASTNER,
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
DORIS M. RUBEL
PAGE 2
NADINE RUPICH and SYDNEY CASTNER and my grandson, KEITH MUNSHOWER, do
not survive me, I leave such tangible personal property to their issue, per stirpes. If there is any
disagreement as to distribution, I direct my executor to make such distribution to the individual
willing to pay the highest sum for the item withe proceeds of such sale being distributed under
the residue of my estate. Any items not selected may be sold in a manner within the sole
discretion of my executors and, if sold, the net proceeds therefrom shall be added to the residue
of my estate.
Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Article THIRD, I may leave a separate,
dated and unsigned Letter of Instruction, which I shall place with my Will, containing directions
as to the ultimate disposition of certain of the property bequeathed under this Article THIRD, and
such Letter of Instruction shall determine the distribution of such items.
FOURTH: Residuary Gifts.
(A) I direct that my executors give my daughter, SYDNEY CASTNER six (6) months
to live in my residential property without fee or rent. I give, devise and bequeath all the rest,
residue and remainder of my estate, of every kind and character, real, personal and mixed,
tangible and intangible, and wherever situated, including any lapsed or rc;nounced legacies or
devises (and including any property over which I may have a power of appointment), in the
following amounts to the respective named and designated beneficiary, provided that if any of the
named individuals predecease me or contest this will then their share shall be distributed to the
remaining named individuals, per capita:
(I) TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT (25%) of the residue of my estate shall be
distributed to my son, JAN BRYAN CASTNER
(2) TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT (25%) of the residue of my estate shall be
distributed to my daughter, NADINE RUPICH.
(3) TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT (25%) of the residue of my estate shall be
distributed to my daughter, SYDNEY CASTNER.
(4) TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT (25%) of the residue of my estate shall be
distributed to my grandson, KEITH MUNSHOWER.
(B) If any bene5ciary under this Will in any manner, directly or indirectly,
contests or challenges my Will or any of its provisions, or my other arrangements
regarding distribution of my assets or estate, then any share or interest to my estate which
otherwise wss to be given to that contesting beneficiary under my Will is revoked and shall
be disposed of in the same manner provided herein as if that contesting beneficiary has
predeceased me. It is my desire and intent that my heirs and beneficiaries receive and use
the gift of my estate amicably. I request the courts to specifically and strictly enforce this
provision to prevent a challenge to my Will.
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
DORIS M. RUBEL
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(C) Distributions During Administration. Prior to final distribution of my estate, the
Executor, in his discretion, may make partial distributions to one or more; beneficiaries or Trusts.
As a consequence, the Executorship and any Trusts created under this Will may exist
contemporaneously. A distribution may be made subject to any indebtedness or liability of my
estate.
FIFTH: Powers of Eaecutor. In addition to the powers and duties as may have been
granted elsewhere in this Will, but subject to any limitations stated elsewhere in this Will, the
Executor shall have and exercise exclusive management and control of the Estate and shall be
vested with the following specific powers and discretion, in addition to the powers as may be
generally conferred from time to time upon the Executor by law:
(A) In the management, Gaze and disposition of the Estate, the Executor shall have the
power to do all things and to execute such instruments, deeds, or other documents as may be
deemed necessary or proper, including the following powers, all of which may be exercised
without order of or report to any Court:
(1) To sell, exchange or otherwise dispose of any property at any time held or
acquired hereunder, at public or private sale, for cash or on terms, without advertisement,
including the right to lease for any term notwithstanding the period of the Estate, and to
grant options, including any option for a period beyond the duration of the Estate.
(2) To invest all monies in such stocks, bonds, securities, mortgages, notes,
choses in action, real estate or improvements thereon, and any other property as the
Executor may deem best, without regazd to any law now or hereafter enforced limiting
investments of fiduciaries.
(3) To retain for investment any property deposited with 'the Executor hereunder.
(4) To vote in person or by proxy any corporate stock or other security and to
agree to or take any other action in regazd to any reorganization, merger, consolidation,
liquidation, bankruptcy or other procedure or proceedings affecting any stock, bond, note
or other security.
(5) To use attorneys, real estate brokers, accountants and other agents, if such
employment is deemed necessary or desirable, and to pay reasonable compensation for
their services.
(~ To compromise, settle or adjust any claim or demand by or against the Estate
and to agree to any rescission or modification of any contract or agreement affecting the
Estate.
('~ To renew any indebtedness, as well as to borrow moniey, and to secure the
same by mortgaging, pledging or conveying any property of the E'sstate.
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
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DORIS M. RUBEL
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(8) To retain and carry on any business in which the Estate may acquire an
interest, to acquire additional interest in any such business, to agree to the liquidation in
kind of any corporation in which the Estate may have an interest amd to carry on the
business thereof, to join with other owners in adopting any form of management for any
business or property in which the Estate may have an interest, to become or remain a
partner, general or limited, in regard to any such business or property and to hold the
stock or other securities as an investment, and to employ agents and confer on them
authority to manage and operate the business, property or corporation, without liability
for the acts of such agent or for any loss, liability or indebtedness of such business if the
management is selected or retained with reasonable caze.
(9) To register any stock, bond or other security in the name of a nominee,
without the addition of words indicating that such security is held. in a fiduciary capacity,
but accurate records shall be maintained showing that such security is a Estate asset and
the Executor shall be responsible for the acts of such nominee.
(B) Whenever the Executor is directed to distribute any Estate; assets in fee simple to a
person who is then under twenty-one (21) years of age, the Executor shall be authorized to hold
such property in Trust for such person until he/she becomes twenty-one (21) years of age, and in
the meantime shall use such part of the income and the principal of the Estate as the Executor
may deem necessary to provide for the proper support and education of such person. If such
person should die before becoming twenty-one (21) years of age, the property then remaining in
trust shall be distributed to the personal representative of such person's estate.
(C) In making distributions from the Estate to or for the benefit of any minor or other
person under a legal disability, the Executor need not require the appointment of a guardian, but
shall be authorized to pay or deliver the same to the custodian of such person, to pay or deliver
the same to such person without the intervention of a guazdian, to pay or deliver the same to a
legal guazdian of such person if one has already been appointed, or to usE; the same for the benefit
of such person.
(D) In the disbursement of the Estate and any division into sepazate trusts or shares,
the Executor shall be authorized to make the distribution and division in money or in kind, or
both, regardless of the basis for income tax purposes of any property distributed or divided in
kind, and the distribution and division made and the values established by the Executor shall be
binding and conclusive on all persons taking hereunder. The Executor may in making such
distribution or division allot undivided interests in the same property to several trusts or shares.
(E) The Executor shall be authorized to lend or borrow, including the right to lend to
or borrow from any trusts which I or my husband may have established during life or by will at
an adequate rate of interest and with adequate security, and upon such teams and conditions as
the Executor shall deem fair and equitable.
(F~ The Executor shall be authorized to sell or purchase at tha; fair market value as
determined by the Executor, any property to or from any trust created by me or my husband
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during life or by Will, even though the same person or corporation may be acting as Executor of
my estate or as Trustee of any of my other trusts.
(G) The Executor shall have discretion to determine whether items should be charged
or credited to income or principal or allocated between income and principal as the Executor may
deem equitable and fair under all the circumstances, including the power to amortize or fail to
amortize any part or all of any premium or discount, to treat any part or all of the profit resulting
from the maturity or sale of any asset, whether purchased at a premium or at a discount, as
income or principal or apportion the same between income and principal., to apportion the sales
price of any asset between income and principal, to treat any dividend or other distribution of any
investment as income or principal, or apportion the same between income and principal, to
chazge any expense against income or principal or apportion the same, acid to provide or fail to
provide a reasonable reserve against depreciation or obsolescence on any assets subject to
depreciation or obsolescence, all as the Executor may reasonably deem equitable and just under
all the circumstances. If the Executor does not exercise the above discretionary power, the cash
or accrual allocation shall be in accordance with Chapter 81 of Title 20 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, or the corresponding provisions of subsequent state law.
(II) If at any time the total fair mazket value of the assets of any trust established or to
be established hereunder is so small that the corporate Trustee's annual ff;e for administering the
trust would be the minimum annual fee set forth in the Trustee's regulazly published fee schedule
then, in effect, the Trustee in its discretion shall be authorized to terminate such trust or to decide
not to establish such trust, and in such event the property then held in or to be distributed to such
trust shall be distributed to the persons who aze then or would be entitled to the income of such
trust. If the amount of income to be received by such persons is to be determined in the
discretion of the Trustee, then the Trustee shall distribute the property anrong such of the persons
to whom the Trustee is authorized to distribute income, and in such proportions, as the Trustee in
its discretion shall determine.
(n Except as otherwise provided in this Will, when the authority and power under
this Will is vested in two (2) or more Executors or Trustees, the authorit•~ and powers are to be
held jointly by the Executors or Trustees, respectively. A majority of the; Executors or Trustees
may exercise any authority or power granted under this Will or granted by law, and may act
under this Will. Any attempt by one such Executor or Trustee to act under this Will on other
than ministerial acts shall be void. The action of one such Executor or Trustee under this Will
may be validated by a subsequent ratification of the act by a majority of 1:he Executors or
Trustees.
SIXTH: Ri~hta and Liabilities of Executor.
(A) No bond or other security shall be required of any Executor.
(B) This instrument always shall be construed in favor of the validity of any act or
omission by any Executor, and any Executor shall not be liable for any act or omission except in
the case of gross negligence, bad faith or fraud. Specifically, in assessing the propriety of any
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investment, the overall performance of the entire Estate shall be taken into account.
(C) Each Executor shall be entitled to receive reasonable compensation for services
actually rendered to my estate, in an amount the Executor normally and customarily charges for
performing similar services during the time which he/she performs the services.
SEVENTH: ~endthrift Provision. No beneficiary shall have the power to anticipate,
encumber or transfer his or her interest in the estate in any manner other than by the valid
exercise of a power of appointment. No part of the estate shall be liable :for or charged with any
debts, contracts, liabilities or torts of a beneficiary or subject to seizure or other process by any
creditor of a beneficiary.
EIGHTH: Taa Elections.
(A) In determining the estate, inheritance and income tax liability relating to my
Estate, the Executor's decision as to all available tax elections shall be conclusive on all
concerned. In accordance with IRC Section 2632(a) and without regazd to whether a Federal
estate tax return is actually filed, my Executor shall allocate so much of the Federal Generation
Skipping Transfer (GST) exemption amount as will fully exempt any generation skipping
transfer which may occur under this Will.
(B) The Executor may, in its discretion, determine the date as of which my gross
estate shall be valued for the purpose of determining the applicable tax payable by reason of my
death.
(C) The Executor may, in its discretion, decide whether all or any part of certain
deductions shall be taken as income tax deductions (even though they may equal or exceed the
taxable income of my estate and whether or not claimed or of benefit on my estate's income tax
return) or as estate tax deductions when a choice is available; and in the event that all or any part
of such deductions are taken as income tax deductions, no adjustment of income and principal
accounts in my estate shall be made as a result of such decisions.
NINTH: Definitions and General Provisions.
(A) Survival. Any beneficiary who dies within sixty (60) da}~s after my death shall be
considered not to have survived me.
(B) Captions. The captions set forth in this Will at the beginning of the various
articles hereof are for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed to define or limit
the provisions hereof or to affect in any way their construction and application.
(C) Children. As used in this Will, the words "child" and "children" shall include
persons who aze legally adopted and the issue of said persons, whether born in or out of wedlock,
so long as any person born out of wedlock is acknowledged in a written instrument executed by
the one of their natural pazents who is a descendant of mine to be the child of said descend
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The word "issue" shall include descendants of all generations including adopted persons. A
posthumous child shall be considered as living at the death of his parent. The birth to me or the
adoption by me of a child or children subsequent to the execution of this Will shall not operate to
revoke this Will. Except for discretionary distributions which may be made unequally among a
group of persons and distributions pursuant to a valid exercise of a power of appointment, in
making a distribution to the children of any person, the property to be distributed shall be divided
into as many shazes as there aze living children of the person and deceased children of the person
who left children who aze then living. Each living child shall take one shaze and the shaze of
each deceased child shall be divided among his then-living descendants in the same manner.
(D) Code. Unless otherwise stated, all references in my Will rto section and chapter
numbers aze to those of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the corresponding
provisions of any subsequent federal tax laws applicable to my estate.
(E) Other terms. The use of any gender includes the other genders, and the use of
either the singulaz or the plural includes the other.
(F) Powers of Appointment are Eaercised. By this Will I exercise any and all
Powers of Appointment which I possess at the time of my death.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, DORIS M. RUBEL, the Testatri:K, have to this my Last
Will and Testament, typewritten on eight (8) pages, including the Acknowledgment and
Affidavit, set my hand and seal this ,~o'~day of ,~{,~i~,/ , 2012.
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ORIS M. R L
Signed, sealed, published and declazed by the above-named Testatrix, as and for her Last Will
and Testament, in the presence of us, who have hereunto subscribed our names at her request, as
witnesses hereto, in the presence of the said Testatrix, and in the presence of each other. Each of
us further declazes that he or she believes the Testatrix to be of sound mind and memory. The
preceding instrument consists of this and seven (7) other consecutively numbered typewritten
pages including the Acknowledgment and Affidavit.
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The Testatrix and the witnesses whose names are signed and subscribed to the attached or
foregoing instrument, being first duly sworn and qualified according to law, do hereby
acknowledge, depose and say to the undersigned authority, that the Testatrix signed and executed
the instrument as her Last Will in the presence of the witnesses; that she signed it willingly or
willingly directed another to sign it for her; that she executed it as her free and voluntary act for
the purposes therein expressed; that each of the witnesses were present acrd saw the Testatrix sign
and execute the instrument as her Last Will; that each subscribing witness in the hearing and
sight of the Testatrix signed the will as witnesses; and that to the best of 1:heir knowledge the
Testatrix was at that time eighteen yeazs of age or older, of sound mind and under no constraint
or undue influence.
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