Could it be that the people he cared about were all dead. And, through his experience, he knew he could not take it with him?
So, lets watch the animals fight over it.
Strikes me as a possibility - 97 years is long enough that if he had no children - that everyone he knew of is gone.
I don’t know what I would do if my brothers, and family were already passed.
Only two animals: the state and the Federal Government.
There will be some bureaucrat (obama buddy) appointed to oversee the estate. It will be largely stolen.