MATTER OF ESTATE OF JONES

No. 91-1668.

492 N.W.2d 723 (1992)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Frank A. JONES, a/k/a Frank Jones, Deceased. Colleen BIVENS and Kristine E. Nelson, Heirs and Beneficiaries, Appellants, v. Lucille GORHAM and Crawford County Trust & Savings Bank, Co-Executors of the Estate of Frank A. Jones, Deceased, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

September 29, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen K. Nepper of Nepper & Tilton, Denison, for appellants.

Michael G. Reilly of Perkins, Sacks, Hannan, Reilly & Petersen, Council Bluffs, for appellees.

Heard by DONIELSON, P.J., HAYDEN, J., and KEEFE, Senior Judge.


KEEFE, Senior Judge.

Frank Jones voluntary placed his business affairs in a guardianship and conservatorship on May 4, 1984. He was then eighty-eight years old and resided at the Dunlap Care Center, a nursing home. Frank's will at that time provided his estate should be divided among the following four persons: his stepsister, Lavina Dethlefs; his niece, Colleen Bivens; his stepdaughter, Evonne Nelson; and his granddaughter, Kristine Nelson.

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