in Re: Estate of Evelyn Marie Reno

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Memorandum Opinion by

Justice CARTER.

I. Factual and Procedural History

Evelyn Marie Reno, a resident of Halls-ville, Harrison County, Texas, died February 11, 2008, in Longview, Gregg County, Texas, at the age of eighty-one. Reno was married twice. She had three children from her first marriage, Donnie Freeman, Donald Wayne Brown, and Bonnie Tap-pan. Freeman and Brown are appellees herein. Appellant, Jan LeGrand, is the sole surviving child of the second marriage.

After Reno’s death, a holographic will, dated December 19, 2001 (“2001 Will”) and a codicil dated February 21, 2002…