LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
ELIZABETH W. HOPPES
I, ELIZABETH W. HOPPES, of the Township of Maxatawny, Berks County, Pennsylvania, make this instrument as and for my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills and codicils.
ONE. I direct the payment out of my estate of my last just debts and expenses.
TWO. I direct that all estate inheritance and succession taxes, interest and penalties on property passing under this Will, or any Codicil hereto, shall be paid out of the principal of my general estate to the same effect as if such taxes were expenses of administration, and all legacies, devises and other gifts of either principal or income made by this Will, or any Codicil hereto, shall be free and clear thereof.
THREE: All of the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, real, personal or mixed, of whatsoever nature and wheresoever situate, which I may own or have the power to dispose of at the time of my decease, I give, devise and bequeath as follows:
Filed January 5, 1995
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C. One-fourth (1/4) share thereof unto my granddaughter, JENNIFER HOPPES.
FOUR: Should any beneficiary under this Will be under the age of twenty-one (21) years or legally adjudicated incompetent at the time of distribution thereof, I then direct that beneficiary's share shall be placed IN TRUST for the following uses and purposes:
- My Trustee shall distribute to or apply, for the benefit of the beneficiary, so much of the net income and principal of the Trust Estate as my Trustee, in his sole discretion, deems appropriate to provide for the support, education and welfare of said beneficiary. Any income of the Trust Estate not so distributed shall be accumulated and added to the principal;
- All principal and income shall, until actual distribution to the beneficiary, be free of thedebts, contracts, alienations, and anticipations of any beneficiary and shall not be liable to any levy, attachment, execution or sequestration; and
- The balance of accumulated principal and income in this Trust shall be distributed when the beneficiary has attained the age of twenty-one (21) years or regained competency.
FIVE: I hereby nominate and appoint my son, LINWOOD R. HOPPES, as Trustee under this Will.
SIX: I hereby nominate and appoint my son, LINWOOD R. HOPPES, as Executor of my Last Will and Testament. I direct that he shall not be required to furnish security in any jurisdiction in which he may serve.
FILED: JAN. 5, 1995
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SEVEN: Unless otherwise specifically provided, an heir in my estate who fails to survive me by thirty (30) days shall be deemed to have predeceased me and shall not share in my estate.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 29th day of December, in the year One Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-Two.
Signature of ELIZABETH W. HOPPES
SIGNED, PUBLISHED and DECLARED by ELIZABETH W. HOPPES, the Testatrix above named, as and for her Last Will and Testament, in or presence, and we at her request, in her presence and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses on the day and year last above written.
Signed by illegible residing at 707 E. Walnut
Kutztown, 19530
Signature of NANCY F. PETERS resident at 72 Mine Rd.
Mertztown, PA
FILED: JAN 5, 1995
Berks Ct. Register of Wills/Orphans' Court Div.
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