EverReady Family started at a kitchen table in Des Moines, Iowa — after Bill Morton served as executor of his own mother's estate.
His mother was a collector, and her estate held a house full of things a geographically scattered family cared about. The family wanted the collection and the house settled fairly and without delay, while individual relatives quietly hoped to keep particular pieces. Bill built a simple website, photographed every item, and let family members bid on the pieces that mattered to them — each winning bid deducted from that person's share of the estate. It worked exceptionally well. People got what they genuinely valued, nobody had to play the bad guy, and a family spread across the map got through the process without an argument.
He learned the rest of the job the same way: gathering the documents, keeping the records, paying $500 to have his mother's photo albums digitized into one shareable file so the pictures would survive. Every EverReady tool since — the Family Command Center, the Executor's Kit, the Life Story Interview — is that experience written down in plain language, so the next family doesn't have to figure it out while they're grieving.
This isn't theory. It's the family playbook — warm, private tools for families remembering, settling, and saving what matters.
— Bill Morton, Founder, EverReady Family