We were disowned recently. My mother and the only other three surviving descendants of George Autrey. I wonder how Lee felt and what her goals were when she secretly disowned her only (step)daughter just before said daughter died. She was her step mother for 67 years and they had a good relationship, and talked every day. As rightful heir, my mother died not knowing that she had been disinherited and that our family money would go to nieces and friends and ex-daughter-in-laws versus his own child’s family. In fact, had my mother received any inheritance when her father George died, she could’ve afforded a lifesaving surgery. Instead, she endured seven years of pain that could’ve been avoided. She died poor, her body wasting away into nothing more than a skeletal frame draped in skin and she wasn't even 70 years old... and her fathers money was secretly stolen by his once mistress turned wife, Leonora... Are you surprised? We aren’t. Even mom who was abused and mistreated by Leonora her whole life- yet somehow loved her nonetheless- suspected the inevitable fraud and greed... worried her father's money would never make it to his grandkids, Lee's only grandchildren. It wasn’t a great fortune. Just enough for each of his descendants to buy a little land and possibly a modest home to love, appreciate and care for— to pass down to our kids. Our family raised hard workers though so we will survive. But it’s a matter of principle at this point. I do wonder how Nancy, Barbara, Carole Elizabeth, and Patty feel stealing generational money from my dying mother and her children—George and Lee’s heirs. I wonder how their consciences live with him being dragged into a lawyer with full fledged Alzheimer’s so that he could sign away control to the women who began her own will with “I am a single woman with no children”... how they felt hiding the truth from mom when he was on her deathbed. I wonder what frivolous and bawdy things they will do with what he worked so hard for and saved for my mother and us while his mistress-turned-wife never worked a day and treated everyone she knew with contempt and venom. They tell you these things happen when people become greedy and mom just hoped for the best in people. She told me a month before she died to fight if this happened. But I don’t want to fight. Like my grandfather and mother before me, I will work hard and earn my keep. But principles matter. Family matters. If there is a hell, may all of the wrongdoers toward family and thieves of generations toil there. Eternity in hell, Leonora? I wish no ill will but it seems that is what you manifested in life and the most you deserve for eternity. May my mother Kerry Autrey Cauley Rest In Peace having been an angel on earth. You deserved better than this from your fathers wife but you were so beloved by all the rest of us.