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Court Order - Gilley, James_2/1/2000�� � • EXHIBIT "A" � r�.�� y �� q g ���� �iZ�. �ta.ix� �.�.���xxt.ezi� I, JAMES W. GILLEY of Evergreen Park, Illinois, being of sound and disposing mind, make this my will and revoke all prior wills and codicils. FIRST: My executor shall pay from the residue of my estate all expenses of my last illness and funeral, costs of administration including ancillary, costs of safeguarding and delivering legacies, other proper charges against my estate, and estate and inheritance taxes assessed by reason of my death, except that the amount, if any, by which the estate and inheritance taxes shall be increased as a result of the inclusion of property in which I may have a power of appointment shall be paid by the person holding or receiving that property, Interest and penalties concerning any tax shall be paid and charged in the same manner as the tax, I waive for my estate all rights of reimbursement for any payments made pursuant to this article. Afy executor's selection of assets to be sold to make the foregoing payments or to satisfy any pecuniary legacies, and the tax effects thereof, shall not be subject to question by any beneficiary. My executor shall make such elections under the tax laws which are operative at the time of my death, as my executor deems advisable, without regard to the relative interests of the beneficiaries. No adjustment shall be made between principal and income or in the relative interests of the beneficiaries to compensate for the effect of elections under the tax laws made by my executor. SECOND: I am a widower and have not remarried. I have one child now living, namely: SUE CAR!1L GILLEY, herein referred to as "my daughter", THIRD: I give all my personal effects, and collections, and any insurance policies thereon to my daughter if she survives me by 30 days, otherwise to her children, who so survive me, otherwise to the residue of my estate. FOURTH: I give all furniture, household effects, appliances, and furnishings to my daughter if she survives me by 30 days, otherwise to her children who so survive me, otherwise to the residue of my estate. FIFI'H: All the residue of my estate, wherever situated, including lapsed legacies, but expressly excluding any property over which I may have a power of appointment at my death, I give to my daughter if she survives me by 30 days, otherwise to her children who so survive me. If neither my daughter nor her children survive me by 30 days, I give the residue of my estate to my niece, DAWN A. MINOR. If a descendant is a minor, payment may be made for the benefit of the descendant to a custodian under a Uniform Gifts to Minors Act. SIRTH: I appoint my daughter, SUE CAROL GILLEY as executor of this will. If for any reason she is unable or refuses to act as executor, I name my niece, DAWN A. MINOR as successor executor. I give to my executor power to invest in bonds, stocks, notes, bank deposits, shares of registered investment companies, or other property, lease, borrow with or without security from any lender, sell or exchange all or any part of my estate,'real or personal, for such prices and upon such terms as my executor deems proper; to compromise, contest, prosecute or abandon claims in favor of or against my estate; to distribute income and principal in cash or in kind, or partly in each and to allocate or distribute undivided interests or different assets or disproportionate interests in assets (and no adjustment shall be made to compensate for a disproportionate allocation of unrealized gain for federal income tax purposes), and to value my estate in order to make allocation or distribution, and no action taken by my executor pursuant to this power shall be subject to question by any beneficiary; to deal with the fiduciary of any trust or estate in which any beneficiary under this will has �:1/v �� . - - • � an interest, though an executor hereunder is such fiduciary; and to execute and deliver necessary instruments and give full receipts and discharges. The foregoing powers shall be exercised by my executor without authorization by any court and, as to property subject to adminstration outside the state of my domicile, only with the approval of my domiciliary executor, No bond or security shall be required of any executor wherever acting. If permitted by law and if not inconsistent with the best interests of the beneficiaries as determined by my executor, the administration of my estate shall be independent of the supervision of any court. SEVENTH: I own a burial plot in Oak Hill Cemetery, Winslow, Indiana, and request that my executor see to my burial alongside by deceased wife, Enita Gilley, in this cemetery. IN WITNESS WHERFAF, I have signed this will, consisting of three (3) pages, the following page included, and for the purpose of identification, have placed 19tflitials at the foot of each preceding page, this 3�r'day of��f'%GMI?�� C�G %',L� � / f�-�C�t � JMfES W. GILLEY We certify that the above instrument.was on the date thereof signed and declared by JA1�tES W. GILLEY as his will in our presence and that we, at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other, have signed our names as witnesses thzreto, believing JAMES W. GILLEY to be of sound mind and memory at the time of signing. � / � n / / �� n � �'/� Residing at �C��^ �y�Q � � 7 !' � ° _ � .!/")') f\1 I l7,(�r���cl /t�?i' i�£:(. 1�� L• �N���1�„ � Residing at /S�/� �-i�� f/��C , ��l✓�j! ! L . //!�J'iy ���,L- Residing at �r'j-'�( s /�c^+�r-�r �'�`�'il SL -Z- �.1��./ ,� , .. _ � � STATE"OF ILLINOIS � CAUNTY OF COOK � � We, the,undersigned, being the testator and the witnesses, respectively, whose names are signed to the foregoing instrument, and being first duly sworn, do hereby declare to the undersigned avthority that the testator, in the - presence of witnesses, signed the instrument as his last will and that he ' signed willingly; and that each of the witnesses, in the presence of the testator and in the presence of each other, signed the will as a witness and - that to the best of his or her knowledge, the testator was at that time of legal age, of sound mind, and under no constraint or undue influence. l�i"Cl/frG l�/ i'`✓���1 TESTAT'OR . 1 / �JTi,.J WI/fNESS �:U���v . � WITNESS „����'�,� , IJITNESS Signed and sworn to before me by JM1FS W. GILLEY the testator, and by each of the above witnesses, this,3 s-,Q day a£��_�,,��, 19 �� . %� ��� ��� �, / !' 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