From Deseret News archives:
'Heroes' get help with wills
The parents drew up simple documents on their home computer and crossed their fingers that they'd done everything correctly.
Brandon and Shantel Shearer, both 20-somethings, had not yet gotten past the talking-about-it stage, although they'd agreed on who they would ask to raise their 4- and 1-year-olds should they die unexpectedly.
On Friday, the two couples dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's and walked away smiling, their children's futures secure.
Glick, a captain with the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office, and Shearer, a Salt Lake City Police officer, were among 200 first responders and spouses from Salt Lake City, Taylorsville and Salt Lake County agencies, along with Utah Transit Authority, who formalized their final wishes as guests of the Utah Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division, which rounded up close to 100 volunteer lawyers and more than 60 notaries to complete the paperwork as part of the Wills for Heroes program.
Wills for Heroes was born in the rubble of the World Trade Center. When the dust settled after terrorist attacks in 2001, killing hundreds of emergency first responders, South Carolina attorney Anthony Hayes asked how he could help. It turned out very few of the first responders had done their "what-if" paperwork the wills and other estate documents. He founded the program to help protect the protectors.
Randall Mansfield, a chaplain and officer for UTA, said he didn't have a will when he was shot 24 years ago on duty with another police force. "Although emergency responders are historically on the front line and subject to being seriously injured and killed, you don't like to think about that part happening. And it's expensive. So you cross your fingers and hope for the best. But every year, some are lost to accidents, assaults, etc."
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