Estate of: McFadden, G. Appeal of: Harrison, R.

OPINION BY

WECHT, J.:

The above-captioned Appellants challenge the orphans’ court’s August 14, 2012 decree that the residuary trust (the “Trust”) contained in the will (the “1930 Will”) of George McFadden (“Decedent”)1 terminated on or about February 21, 2012, twenty-one years after the death of Decedent’s last surviving child, Emily Staempf-li. The orphans’ court found that Ms. Staempfli was the measuring life for purposes of the Trust. We reverse.

The orphans’ court has provided an admirably thorough, almost Genesis-like account of the genealogy of those among Decedent’s progeny whose…