Last Will & Testament of My Grandma Helen Mills Peters (Partial, Undated)

This is the last will & testament of my Grandma Helen Mills Peters who commit suicide on January 18, 1958. She was a lovely woman, who cared for & loved her family & husband & children, but struggled with depression, the reasons not perfectly clear, but perhaps a change of lifestyle from a relatively simple life in Evanston, Ilinois to a "rich wife" in Grand Rapids after my grandfather became successful in the butter business & they moved into a mansion... My grandma Helen Mills Peters loved horses. Her father worked for Armour Meat as an executive & where my grandfather Leo Peters started out before branching off on his own in to the butter business. It was in Evanston that my mom, Linda, & her older sister, Martha were born & where my grandfather started his successful butter "squeeze pack" out of the garage of their apartment. This led to the beginning of "Butterball Farms" & later my grandfather sold the name, in part, to the turkey company, but retained the rights to use the name for his butter which is still sold in "fancy restaurants" as well as more simply at all the McDonalds in America (the little butter ball you get with "hotcakes" at McDonalds comes from Butterball Farms, now run by my late grandfather's son, Mark (from his second family; after Helen died, my grandfather remarried to Nancy (the former maid) & had three children, Mark, Andrea, & Theresa). After my grandmother Helen died (whom I never met) my mother & her sisters continued to go to school in Grand Rapids (GRCH & Calvin College) & got married, had kids, etc. etc. & when my mom was a "young mom" still in Grand Rapids with us kids, my grandfather decided he wanted to change my grandmother Helen's last will & testament. This led to some significant "conflicts" between my mom & her sisters versus my grandfather Leo Peters...a story that needs more time to tell than can be told here in this description...stay tuned...