In will, Helms asks children to avoid disharmony
Monday,
August
4
( 2:51 pm)
RALEIGH (AP) — Jesse Helms' will asks his family to avoid "disharmony among themselves" and seeks a place for his Senate desk.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported today that a will filed in Wake County courts on July 16 stated that the late Republican senator asked his children not to disagree over his estate, worried about his desk and left his congressional papers to his wife, Dorothy.
Most of the details of Helms' estate were left up to his children and two executors — grandson Charles Knox Jr. and Wake County Commissioner Paul Coble, who is Helms' nephew.
He also stated that if no one in his family wanted his Senate desk, it should be donated to the Jesse Helms Center Foundation in Wingate.
