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I FANK EDWIN MCCREADY, A RESIDENT OF 220 N. KING RD., HOLLAND, LUCAS COUNTY, OHIO, BEING OF FULL AGE AND OF SOUND MIND AND MEMORY, DO MAKE, PUBLISH AND DECLARE THIS TO BE MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, HEREBY REVOKING ALL WILLS AND CODICILS BY ME HERETOFORE MADE.

ITEM I. I DIRECT MY EXECUTRIX TO PAY ALL MY JUST DEBTS, EXPENSES FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF MY ESTATE, AND FUNERAL EXPENSES OUT OF MY ESTATE AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE AFTER THE TIME OF MY DECEASE. I DIRECT THAT PAYMENT OF ALL ESTATE, INHERITANCE AND SUCCESSION TAXES, STATE AND FEDERAL, LEVIED OR ASSESSED AGAINST OR IN PART WITH RESPECT TO PROPERTY, INCLUDING INSURANCE, WHICH DOES NOT COME INTO THE POSSESSION OF MY EXECUTRIX OR WITHIN MY PROBATE ESTATE, BE CHARGED TO MY ESTATE, AND I HEREBY WAIVE IN BEHALF OF MY ESTATE ANY RIGHT TO RECOVER, AND DIRECT MY EXECUTRIX NOT TO SEEK TO RECOVER ANY PART OF SUCH TAXES SO PAID FROM ANY IN BENEFICIARY RECEIVING ANY PROPERTY OR INSURANCE, WHISH IS INCLUDED IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN MY GROSS TAXABLE ESTATE. ITEM II. ALL THE PROPERTY, REAL AND PERSONAL, OF EVERY KIND AND DESCRIPTION, WHERESOEVER SITUATE, WHICH I MAY OWN OR HAVE THE RIGHT TO DISPOSE OF AT THE TIME OF MY DECEASE, I GIVE, BEQUEATH AND DEVISE TO MY WIFE, GRACE D. MCCREADY, SHOULD PREDECEASE ME, THEN, IN SUCH EVENT, I GIVE BEQUEATH AND DEVISE TO MY DAUGHER JEWEL ROSE BALDWIN, OF DELTA, OHIO, ALL MY JIM REEVES RECORDS, TO MY DAUGHTER GRACE FISH, OF RTE. 2, HUDSON, MICHIGAN, ALL MY ORGAN AND SACRED MUSIC RECORDS, TO MY SONS, ROBERT EDWARD LOUIS, WILLIAM PAUL, DONALD DODGE AND FRANCIS E., $25.00 EACH, AND TO MY SON JAMES E., ALL THE REST, RESIDUE AND REMAINDER OF MY PROPERTY, BOTH REAL AND PERSONAL, OF EVERY KIND AND DESCRIPTION, WHERESOEVER SITUATE, WHICH I MAY OWN OR HAVE THE RIGHT TO DISPOSE OF AT THE TIME OF MY DECEASE, PER STIRPES. ITEM III. I MAKE, NOMINATE AND APPOINT MY DAUGHTER, GRACE FISH, AS EXECUTRIX OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, AND REQUEST THAT SHE BE REQUIRED TO GIVE NO BOND FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF HER DUTIES AS SUCH OR OTHERWISE. SHOULD MY SAID DAUGHTER FOR ANY REASON BE UNABLE OR UNWILLING TO BE APPOINTED, OR IF AFTER HAVING BEEN APPOINTED SHOULD SHE CEASE TO ACT FOR ANY REASON, THEN I APPOINT MY DAUGHTER JEWEL ROSE BALDWIN, AS MY EXECUTRIX WITHOUT BOND, ANY ANY EXECUTRIX NAMED HEREIN, SHALL HAVE ALL THE POWERS, RIGHTS, OBLIGATIONS AND DUTIES AS IN THIS WILL PROVIDED FOR MY EXECUTRIX.

MY EXECUTRIX SHALL HAVE FUL POWER AND AUTHORITY TO INVEST AND REINVEST ANY MONEYS IN HER HANDS AND TO CHANGE INVESTMENTS, AND TO SELL, TRANSFER, DISPOSE OF, ASSIGN, LEASE AND CONVEY ANDY PROPERTY, INVESTEMENTS, OR SECURITIES HELD BY HER WITHOUT NOTICE, ADVERTISEMENT, APPRAISEMENT, VALUATION OR COURT ORDER OR OTHER LEGAL FORMALITY, AT PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SALE, FOR SUCH AMOUNT AND ON SUCH TERMS AS SHE MAY DEEM ADVISABLE. MY SAID EXECUTRIX HAS THE RIGHT, WITHOUT COURT ORDER OR OTHER LEGAL FORMALITY, TO COMPROMISE, SETTLE AND ADJUSTANY AND ALL CLAIMS IN FAVOR OF OR AGAINST MY ESTATE AS SHE MAY DEEP PROPER. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY HAND AT TOLEDO, OHIO, THIS 12TH DAY OF MARCH, A.D., 1973. SIGNED PUBLISHED AND DECLARED BY FRANK EDWIN MCCREADY, THE TESTATOR, AS AND FOR HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, IN THE PRESENCE OF THE UNDERSIGNED WITNESSES, WHO ATTEST THAT HE DECLARED SAID WILL WAS READ TO HIM, EXPLAINED AND UNDERSTOOD BY HIM AND WHO AT HIS REQUEST, IN HIS PRESENCE AND IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER, SIGNED THE SAME AS WITNESSES, ON THE DAY AND YEAR LAST ABOVE MENTIONED.