Pioneer: 1990 Vol.37 No.6

HOW CAN I REMEMBER THE SUP IN MY WILL
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Some of our members have asked how they can go about including the Sons of Utah Pioneers in
their will. According to the Utah Code 1986*1987, Section 75-2-504 a Will may be executed in
substantially the following form:
Hagt Will antr tKetftanmtt
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: I, John Doe, of Salt Lake City, County of Salt Lake,
State of Utah, being of sound and disposing mind and memory do make, publish and declare the
following to be my LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, hereby revoking all Wills by me at any time
heretofore made,
FIRST: I direct my Executrix, Jane Doe, to pay all funeral expenses, administration expenses of
my estate, including inheritance and succession taxes, state or federal, which may be occasioned by
the passage of or succession to any interest in my estate under this instrument, and all my just debts,
excepting mortgage notes secured by mortgages upon real estate*
SECOND: I give and bequeath to THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE UTAH
PIONEERS, a corporation now maintaining its home headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah the sum of
_OR___% of my estate for the purpose of which the Society is
incorporated*
THIRD, All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, both real and personal, of whatsoever
kind or character, and wheresoe ver situated,I give, devise and bequeath to my beloved wife: Jane Doe,
to be hers absolutely and forever*
FOURTH, If my said wife does not survive me, then I give, devise and bequeath such rest, residue
and remainder of my estate to my beloved children, natural or adopted, in equal shares, per stirpes, to
be theirs absolutely and forever; provided, that the share of any child of mine who has died leaving
no issue shall be divided among my surviving children in equal shares, per stirpes.
I,.
__the testator, sign my name to this
instrument this_day of ___ 19 and being duly
sworn,do hereby declare to the undersigned authority that
I sign and execute this instrument as my last will and that
I sign it willingly (or willingly direct another to sign for
me), that I execute it as my free and voluntary act for the
purposes expressed in it, and that lam 18 years of age or
older, of sound mind, and under no constraint or undue
influence*
Testator
We, _
, the witnesses, sign our
names to this instrument, being first duly sworn, and
do hereby declare to the undersigned authority that
the testator signs and executes this instrument as his
last will and that he signs it willingly (or willingly
directs another to sign for him), and that each of us,
in the presence and hearing of the testator and each
other,hereby signs this will as witness to the testator's
signing, and that to the best of our knowledge the
testator is 18 years or older, of sound mind, and
under no constraint or undue influence.
Witness
a
STATE OF
COUNTY OF_
Subscribed, sworn to, and acknowledged
before me by_,the testator and subscribed
and sworn to before me by_and_, wifnes
ses, thi s day of
(Signed)_(Notary)_
Witness
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