In Re Estate of Karr

The deceased, Joseph Karr, seventy-eight, of

Brooklyn, Poweshiek County, Iowa, died there April 16, 1943. He had never married. His older brother Ira, also a bachelor, seven years his senior, a resident of Rock Island, Illinois, died in 1932. His eldest sister, Rebecca (Karr) Simpson, died in the latter part of 1928. Her only survivor when Joseph died was her son, Elmer E. Simpson, one of -the resistants. The other sister' of Joseph, also his senior, was Mary (Karr) Humphrey, who preceded him in death some years, leaving as her only survivors when Joseph died her children, William Humphrey,…