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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0472 ( n Last Will and Testament of EDITH J. SMITH Page Three FIFTH: I hereby constitute and appoint HEN L. BRYAN, JR., as Personal Representative of this my Last Will and Testament, and I expressly confer upon him power as such Personal Representative to administer my estate, excusing him from giving any bond or making any returns to any court. I expressly confer upon him full authority and power to manage, invest and re-invest, to sell and convey any part or all of my estate, at public or private sale, with or without notice, as he may deem best, and without any order of court. I authorize him to make good and sufficient conveyances to any purchaser and to hold the proceeds of any sale for such use as he may deem best for the in- terest of my estate. I further hereby expressly confer upon him the authority and power to borrow money for the use of my said estate in any instance where he may think it necessary and proper, and to secure the same by mortgage, trust deed or other form of security to or upon any part of my estate; this he may do without the order of any court. In the event BEN L. BRYAN, JR. fails to survive me or if he fails to qualify as Personal Representative, I then appoint HELEN NEFF as alternate PersonaZ Representative of this my Last Will and Testament, with the same rights and privileges as Ben L. Bryan, Jr. would have had if he had survived me. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my hand and seal, and publish and declare this instrur.tent to be my Last Will and Testament, in the presence of the witnesses named hereinafter, on this the `1`~ day of December, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy-Seven. ~ - / ~ ~ . _ ~ ~ , ~ ~ ~ ; ~ Seal) Edith J. Sm % The foregoing instrument was subscribed by the said EDITH J. SMITH, in our presence, and acknowledged by her to each of us, and she at the same time, declared the foregoing instrument~as subscribed by her to be her Last Will and Testament, and we at her request have signed our names as witnesses thereunto, in her presence and in the presence of each other, and have written opposite our names our re- 1 ~ ~~~K ~92 47~ n - _ ~ ~ s ~ : - ~ _ _ . - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ___~.~~.~-.a-~