What a wonderful story. I'm glad you were given things you can treasure and remember your grandmother by.
When my grandparents made their "final" arrangements, they wanted my mother to be the executor of their will. I told my mom to refuse, and to have them pick someone outside of their children to be the executor. I used to work in a law firm and saw waaaaay too many family feuds start over the fact that heirs can sometimes feel there is an unfair advantage when one child is picked over the others to be executor.