Solva, where Margaret Allan and her husband moved to some 30 years ago, is a small village by the sea in Pembrokshire Coast National Park.

 

The village has now been left £400000 in the will of Margaret Allan, who died recently

 

Margaret Allan was very grateful for her neighbours' care and concern after her husband's death nearly 20 years ago, and when her own her own health began to deteriorate. Still, the villagers and various businesses in Solva, a village in Pembrokeshire, U.K., where Allan lived, did not expect £400,000 pounds to be left to them in her will, reported the Daily Telegraph.

Included in the sum of the 90-year-old widow's bequest were thousands of pounds to churches, animal charities, the local conservation association and the surgery. Mrs Allan also left a generous sum for the Solva Luncheon Club's Christmas drinks. Fellow villager, 86-year-old Peggy Evans, told the Daily Telegraph, "This generosity is completely in character and villagers are delighted she has remembered them."

 

It doesn't take much to write a will, but in doing so you can make sure that those that you leave behind are looked after in the way you might see fit. If you dont leave a will, you die intestate, then generally the money will be divided up between your family, possibly not in the manner that you might have wanted. Worst of all, if you have no family or they cannot be located, the benefit of your estate passes to the crown (ie the government gets it).