Archive for October 21st, 2009
With thanks from the research of some of the late Ann Landers columns, the copy of this letter still contains a message of relevance !
Titled: Please Make a Will.
Dear Ann Landers:
I am a fairly intelligent woman ( or so I thought ) in a state of shock. Why ?, because I didn’t know the first thing about inheritance laws. I sit here dumbfounded at my ignorance and angry at my deceased husband for not educating me. ( Maybe he didn’t know either, but he should have.
John and I were married 33 tears. We have two children. Five years ago our son ran off with a girl we never liked. We haven’t heard from him since. our daughter is living in California with some hippie—weaving baskets. We wrote her off in 1972 when she wrote us a nasty letter about our “crass materialism “.
Two weeks ago John died of a heart attack. He was 57 and in the best of health. He had a physical in December and pronounced fit as a fiddle..
John left no WILL . When the lawyers told me I am entitled by law to only one-third of my husband’s estate and our daughter and son will divide the other two-thirds I almost keeled over. Yes, that’s the way the law in Illinois reads and I am helpless.
I am writing in the hope that you will print this letter and wake up others who are as stupid as I was.
Signed: Don’t know what hit me.
Ann Landers reply said : Dear don’t know. Here’s your letter and I hope it gets a few million people to thinking.
She added : Do you women out there know what would happen if your husband dropped dead tomorrow? If you don’t, call a lawyer or financial planner or an insurance agent and find out. Nobody likes to think about death, but it’s virtually the only thing you can count on, only you don’t know when ?
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