Seattle couple bequest to America, A few from Seattle left all they had, almost $1 million, "to the legislature of the United States of America" in their indistinguishable wills, the legal advisor who directed the home said.
A clerk's check for $847,215.57 was gotten and saved into the U.S. Branch of the Treasury's general finances on May 13, as indicated by U.S. associate lawyer Peter Winn, who told ABC News today that he was the person who worked with the Treasury Department to acknowledge the cash for the benefit of the legislature.
Despite the fact that Peter Petrasek and Joan Petrasek never showed why they needed to give the greater part of their cash to the U.S. government, Winn accepts the cash is a "thank you" to the nation that took in the couple after they fled from Nazi-controlled eastern Europe in World War II.This case is intriguing on the grounds that it is by all accounts that these were two migrants who felt thankful to have this assenting nation open its arms to them in the wake of having some major difficulty in eastern Europe amid World War II," Winn said. "It truly reminds you how this nation was established by settlers, and its really clear these people felt really glad they were U.S. residents."
The whole procedure of satisfying the Petrasek's wishes on their wills took somewhat more than three years. Diminish Petrasek passed on May 20, 2012, at 85, lawyer Carrie Balkema told ABC News today, including that his wife, Joan Petrasek, kicked the bucket of bosom malignancy in 1998.Balkema said she was reached by the Peter Petrasek's adjacent neighbor, Ronald Wright, soon after Petrasek's demise in 2013. Wright was doled out to be the will's agent on the grounds that the couple had no living relatives or kids, and Wright employed Balkema to help him, she said.
Wright did not promptly return ABC News' voice messages asking for extra remark.
Balkema said she helped offer the house, and continues of the deal turned into a piece of the $847,215.57 check to the legislature. Other cash originated from the couple's current ledgers, which contained the cash from the stocks Peter possessed that he sold.
Despite the fact that very little is thought about the couple, Balkema said Peter Petrasek got away to Ottawa, Canada, from Czechoslovakia, where he met his wife Joan, who was Irish, as indicated by their neighbor.
Sooner or later in the late 1950s, the couple moved to the United States, she said, adding that Peter Petrasek appeared to have carried on with a singular life after the demise of his wife.
She included that, from the looks of the house, he hadn't done any generous housekeeping in a long while.
"He was a very parsimonious man," Balkema said. "He had containers of reused oil that he used to ... power his oil heater."
In light of the couple's blessing to the U.S., Balkema said she felt both "inquisitive and sort of dismal" on the grounds that she accepted Peter Petrasek felt he had nobody else to get his domain and cash in the wake of acknowledging he had no known relatives cleared out.
A clerk's check for $847,215.57 was gotten and saved into the U.S. Branch of the Treasury's general finances on May 13, as indicated by U.S. associate lawyer Peter Winn, who told ABC News today that he was the person who worked with the Treasury Department to acknowledge the cash for the benefit of the legislature.
Despite the fact that Peter Petrasek and Joan Petrasek never showed why they needed to give the greater part of their cash to the U.S. government, Winn accepts the cash is a "thank you" to the nation that took in the couple after they fled from Nazi-controlled eastern Europe in World War II.This case is intriguing on the grounds that it is by all accounts that these were two migrants who felt thankful to have this assenting nation open its arms to them in the wake of having some major difficulty in eastern Europe amid World War II," Winn said. "It truly reminds you how this nation was established by settlers, and its really clear these people felt really glad they were U.S. residents."
The whole procedure of satisfying the Petrasek's wishes on their wills took somewhat more than three years. Diminish Petrasek passed on May 20, 2012, at 85, lawyer Carrie Balkema told ABC News today, including that his wife, Joan Petrasek, kicked the bucket of bosom malignancy in 1998.Balkema said she was reached by the Peter Petrasek's adjacent neighbor, Ronald Wright, soon after Petrasek's demise in 2013. Wright was doled out to be the will's agent on the grounds that the couple had no living relatives or kids, and Wright employed Balkema to help him, she said.
Wright did not promptly return ABC News' voice messages asking for extra remark.
Balkema said she helped offer the house, and continues of the deal turned into a piece of the $847,215.57 check to the legislature. Other cash originated from the couple's current ledgers, which contained the cash from the stocks Peter possessed that he sold.
Despite the fact that very little is thought about the couple, Balkema said Peter Petrasek got away to Ottawa, Canada, from Czechoslovakia, where he met his wife Joan, who was Irish, as indicated by their neighbor.
Sooner or later in the late 1950s, the couple moved to the United States, she said, adding that Peter Petrasek appeared to have carried on with a singular life after the demise of his wife.
She included that, from the looks of the house, he hadn't done any generous housekeeping in a long while.
"He was a very parsimonious man," Balkema said. "He had containers of reused oil that he used to ... power his oil heater."
In light of the couple's blessing to the U.S., Balkema said she felt both "inquisitive and sort of dismal" on the grounds that she accepted Peter Petrasek felt he had nobody else to get his domain and cash in the wake of acknowledging he had no known relatives cleared out.
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