“If it was properly executed,” Margaret said, “the lawyer who drew it up may still have a copy in his
files. Lawyers are supposed to keep them. It won’t change anything legally now. But you might want to see it.” She paused. “Sometimes it helps to see it in writing. What someone actually wanted.”Find Lawyers
“Who would’ve drawn it up?” Brittany asked.
Margaret almost smiled.
“Earl Kessler,” she said. “Came in here in March 2015, about a month after his wife’s funeral. Sat in that chair right there. Wanted to make sure his granddaughters got the pond.” She went to her filing
cabinet. “I’ll have to check. But I believe that was me.”
Chapter Nine: In Writing
She found it the next day. She called me at work.
A copy of Grandpa’s 2015 will, in a manila folder in her files. Signed by Earl Kessler. Witnessed by her secretary and the Iowa State Bank teller who came up to notarize it.
