Iphone 3gs text message transfer

Hi, my little sister passed away at Christmas and I am trying to safe and/or transfer her text messages on my iphone 3gs, I have a 7 yr old MacBook.  Sorry I am a bit of a 'techno donut'!! Any advice greatly appreciated. Thank you, Livvy

Hi Livvy,
If you need another option to save the text messages, I've used decipher text message in the past to save my mom's messages when she passed away. I also took screenshots at the time too just to be safe since I was afraid about losing the info. Hope whatever way you go that you are able to save your sisters info.
http://deciphertools.com/decipher-textmessage.html

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