LEGAL NOTICES FOR 11-26-2025
STATE OF GEORGIA
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF APPLING COUNTY
IN RE: ESTATE OF Linda Carol Martin
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
All creditors of the estate of Linda Carol Martin late of Appling County, Georgia, deceased, are hereby notified to render in their demands to the undersigned according to law; and all persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment to said estate.
This 22 day of October, 2025.
Charles P. Martin
Executor/Administrator
399 Sellers Rd
Baxley, GA. 31513
912-347-3717
11/5 – 11/26
|
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF APPLING COUNTY
STATE OF GEORGIA
IN RE: ESTATE OF
Randy L. Carter
DECEASED
ESTATE NO. 2025-114
PETITION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTMTION
NOTICE
TO: Any and all heirs known and unknown and to whom it may concern:
Bonnie Carter has Petitioned for Bonnie Carter to be appointed administrator(s) of the estate of Randy L. Carter deceased, of said county. (The petitioner has also applied for waiver of bond, waiver of reports, waiver of statements, and/or grant of certain powers contained in O.C.G.A. § 53-12-261.) All interested persons are hereby notified to show cause why said petition should not be granted. All objections to the petition must be in writing, setting forth the grounds of any such objections, and must be filed with the Court on or before November 28,2025.
BE NOTIFIED FURTHER: All objections to the petition must be in writing, setting forth the grounds of any such objections. All objections should be sworn to before a notary public or before a probate court clerk, and filing fees must be tendered with your objections, unless you qualify to file as an indigent party. Contact probate court personnel for the required amount of filing fees. If any objections are filed, a hearing will be scheduled at a later date. If no objections are filed, the petition may be granted without a hearing.
Gretchen Bailey
Judge of the Probate Court
By: A Griffis
Clerk of the Probate Court
36 S. Main Street
Baxley, GA 31513
912-367-8114
11/5 – 11/26
|
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
All creditors of the Estate of DELOIS JENEAN TWIGGS deceased, late of Appling County, Georgia, are hereby notified to render their demands to the undersigned according to law, and all persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment to the undersigned.
JAMES L. TWIGGS, JR.
Executor
180 Crowder St.
Baxley, Georgia 31513
SMITH & SMITH
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, LLC
WOOD SMITH
Attorney for the Estate of
DELOIS JENEAN TWIGGS
P. O. Drawer 1745
53 South Tallahassee Street
Hazlehurst, Georgia 3l539
11/5 – 11/26
|
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF APPLING COUNTY
STATE OF GEORGIA
IN RE: ESTATE OF
LAVERNE LEWIS,
DECEASED
ESTATE NO. 2025-113
PETITION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION
NOTICE
TO: and to whom it may concern:
Peggy Taylor, Martha L. Strickland, Patricia L. Newton and Joan Lightsey has petitioned for Peggy Taylor, Martha L. Strickland, Patricia L. Newton and Joan Lightsey to be appointed administrator(s) of the estate LAVERNE LEWIS, deceased, of said county. (The petitioner has also applied for waiver of bond, waiver of reports, waiver of statements, and/or grant of certain powers contained in O.C.G.A. § 53-12-261) All interested persons are hereby notified to show cause why said petition should not be granted. All objections to the petition must be in writing, setting forth the grounds of any such objections, and must be filed with the Court on or before November 27, 2025.
BE NOTIFIED FURTHER: All objections to the petition must be in writing, setting forth the grounds of any such objections. All objections should be sworn to before a notary public or before a probate court clerk, and filing fees must be tendered with your objections, unless you qualify to file as an indigent party. Contact probate court personnel for the required amount of filing fees. If any objections are filed, a hearing will be scheduled at a later date. If no objections are filed, the petition may be granted without a hearing.
Gretchen Bailey
Judge of the Probate Court
36 S. Main Street
Baxley, GA 31513
(912) 367-8114
11/5 – 11/26
|
This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER
GEORGIA, APPLING COUNTY
Under and by virtue of Power of Sale contained in Security Deed from Joshua Christopher Wilkerson AKA Joshua C. Wilkerson, to 21st Mortgage Corporation, dated April 10, 2025, filed for record April 14, 2025, recorded at Deed Book 726, Page 293, Appling County, Georgia Records, in the original principal amount of $96,586.15, aforesaid records to secure the obligations of Grantor to Lender as set forth in a Promissory Note (“Note”) of even date as amended, modified, or revised from time to time, with interest at the rate specified therein, there will be sold, by the undersigned at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash, before the Courthouse Door at APPLING COUNTY, Georgia, within the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday in December 2025, the following described property:
All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in Land Lot No. 285 of the Second Land District of Appling County, Georgia, and being more particularly described as all of Lots No. 1, 2 and 3 according to the courses, metes and bounds of that certain survey and Plat thereof by Denean W. Dixon, G.R.L.S. No. 1647, dated May 29, 1989, recorded in Deed Book 285, Page 71, Appling County, Georgia Deed Records, which survey is incorporated herein and made a part hereof for descriptive and all other legal purposes.
This being the same property conveyed to Carletha Mae Coley by deed dated August 15, 2016, recorded in Deed Book 533, page 285, Appling County records.
Map and Parcel: 0050-061P
Said legal description is controlling however, the property is commonly known as 1105
Poor
Robin
Road,
Baxley,
Georgia
31513.
Map and Parcel # 0050-061P
The indebtedness secured by said Security Deed has been and is hereby declared due because of default under the terms of said Security Deed and Note, including, but not limited to, the nonpayment of the indebtedness as and when due. The indebtedness remaining in default, this sale will be made for the purpose of paying the same, all expenses of the sale, including attorneys’ fees and other payments provided for under the terms of the Security Deed and Note.
Said property will be sold subject to the following items which may affect the title to said property: all zoning ordinances; matters which would be disclosed by an accurate survey or by inspection of the property; any outstanding taxes, including but not limited to, ad valorem taxes, which constitute liens upon said property; special assessments; and all outstanding bills for public utilities which constitute liens upon said property; To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the party in possession of the property is Joshua Christopher Wilkerson AKA Joshua C. Wilkerson and /or tenant(s).
The sale will be conducted subject (1) to confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the United States Bankruptcy Code and (2) to final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the Security Deed. 21ST Mortgage Corporation aka 21st Century Mortgage Corporation, and its counsel are acting as debt collectors. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.
21ST MORTGAGE CORPORATION, as Attorney-in-Fact for Joshua Christopher Wilkerson AKA Joshua C. Wilkerson.
Contact: Jason Godwin
Godwin Law Group
3985 Steve Reynolds Blvd, Bldg D
Norcross, GA 30093
Phone: 470-427-2683
Email: jgodwin@godwinlawgroup.com
11/5-11/26
|
STATE OF GEORGIA COUNTY OF APPLING NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER
Pursuant to the power of sale contained in the Security Deed executed by JULIAN JASPER BLACK to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS GRANTEE, AS NOMINEE FOR VILLAGE CAPITAL & INVESTEMENTS, LLC in the original principal amount of $137,450.00 dated October 13, 2020, and recorded in Deed Book 580, Page 247, Appling County records, said Security Deed being last transferred to PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC in Deed Book 736, Page 14, Appling County records, the undersigned will sell at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash, before the Courthouse door in said County, or at such other place as lawfully designated, within the legal hours of sale, on 12/2/2025, the property in said Security Deed and described as follows:
ALL THAT CERTAIN TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN LAND LOT 418, SECOND LAND DISTRICT, APPLING COUNTY, GEORGIA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: TO FIND THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THE PROPERTY HEREIN DESCRIBED START AT THE POINT OF INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTHWESTERN MOST RIGHT OF WAY BOUNDARY OF U.S. HIGHWAY 341, AS SAME EXISTED ON MAY 2, 1983, WITH THE WEST ORIGINAL LAND LOT LINE OF SAID LAND LOT 418, AND FROM SAID POINT RUN THENCE SOUTH 66 DEGREES 29 MINUTES 12 SECOND EAST A DISTANCE OF 507.09 FEET TO A POINT. WHICH POINT MARKS THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THE PROPERTY HEREIN DESCRIBED, SAID POINT BEING LOCATED ON THE SOUTHWESTERN MOST RIGHT OF WAY BOUNDARY OF U.S. HIGHWAY, AS SAME EXISTED ON MAY 2, 1983; FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING RUN THENCE SOUTH 66 DEGREES 29 MINUTES 12 SECONDS EAST A DISTANCE OF 152.0 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE TURNING AND RUNNING SOUTH 21 DEGREES 20 MINUTES 42 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 186.88 FEET TO A POINT: THENCE TURNING AND RUNNING NORTH 68 DEGREES 29 MINUTES 51 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 149.0 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE TURNING AND RUNNING IN A STRAIGHT LINE TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THE PROPERTY HEREIN DESCRIBED. THE ABOVE DESCRIBED PROPERTY IS LOCATED IN THE SOUTHEASTERLY MOST PROJECTION OF TRACT TWO OF THAT CERTAIN PROPERTY OF MRS. LESSIE STONE ESTATE SHOWN ACCORDING TO A SURVEY THEREOF PREPARED BY MERLIN J. TOMBERLIN, APPLING COUNTY SURVEYOR, WHICH PLAT IS DATED MAY 2, 1983 AND IS OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK 10, FOLIO 281, CLERK’S OFFICE APPLING COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, APPLING COUNTY, GEORGIA, SAID PLAT BY THIS REFERENCE HERETO BEING INCORPORATED HEREIN AND MADE A PART HEREOF FOR ALL NECESSARY PURPOSES. SAID PROPERTY ADJOINS TRACT ONE SHOWN ACCORDING TO SAID PLAT.
SAID PROPERTY IS FURTHER DESCRIBED AS BEING BOUNDED, NOW OR FORMERLY, AS FOLLOWS: ON THE NORTHEAST BY THE SOUTHWESTERLY MOST RIGHT OF WAY BOUNDARY OF U.S. HIGHWAY 341; ON THE SOUTHEAST BY LAND OF CURTIS AND AUSTEEN GUNN; ON THE SOUTHWEST BY LANDS OF ELMER AND RUBY DRAWDY; AND ON THE NORTHWEST BY LAND OF MARTIN STONE, BEING THE REMAINING PORTION OF TRACT TWO ACCORDING TO SAID PLAT ABOVE REFERENCED.
Said property being known as: 9895 GOLDEN ISLE W, HAZLEHURST, GA 31539
To the best of the undersigned’s knowledge, the party or parties in possession of said property is/are JULIAN JASPER BLACK or tenant(s).
The debt secured by said Security Deed has been and is hereby declared due and payable because of, among other possible events of default, failure to pay the indebtedness as provided for in the Note and said Security Deed. The debt remaining in default, this sale will be made for the purpose of paying the same and all expenses of sale, including attorney’s fees (notice of intent to collect attorney’s fees having been given).
Said property will be sold subject to the following: (1) any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes which are a lien, whether or not yet due and payable); (2) the right of redemption of any taxing authority; (3) any matters which might be disclosed by an accurate survey and inspection of the property; and (4) any assessments, liens, encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants, and matters of record superior to the Security Deed first set out above.
Said sale will be conducted subject to the following: (1) confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code; and (2) final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the Security Deed.
The name, address, and telephone number of the individual or entity who has full authority to negotiate, amend, and modify all terms of the mortgage is as follows:
Planet Home Lending, LLC
321 Research Parkway, Suite 303 Meriden, CT 06450
1-855-884-2250
Note that pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 44-14-162.2, the above individual or entity is not required by law to negotiate, amend, or modify the terms of the mortgage.
THIS LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC,
as Attorney-in-Fact for
JULIAN JASPER BLACK
Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC
13010 Morris Rd., Suite 450
Alpharetta, GA 30004
Phone: 470-321-7112
Firm File No. 25-327854 – LiG
11/5 – 11/26
|
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF APPLING COUNTY
STATE OF GEORGIA
IN RE: Estate of VELMA LEWIS, deceased
All creditors of the estate of Velma Lewis, deceased, late of Appling County, Georgia, are hereby notified to render their demands to the undersigned according to law, and all persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This 4th day of September, 2025.
Mattie Jackson, Administrator
Estate of Velma Lewis
650 Manning Williams Road
Baxley, GA 31513
Madeline Rentz-Tucker
JohnsonFloyd LLP
132 W. Parker Street
Baxley, Georgia 31513
912-367-9000
11/12-12/3
|
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF APPLING COUNTY
STATE OF GEORGIA
IN RE: ESTATE OF
JOSEPH HOWARD SANNUTTI,
DECEASED
ESTATE NO. 2025-119
PETITION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION
NOTICE
TO:
and to whom it may concern:
DEBRA LEE SANNUTTI has petitioned for DEBRA LEE SANNUTTI to be appointed Administrator of the estate of JOSEPH HOWARD SANNUTTI deceased, of said County. (The Petitioner has also applied for waiver of bond, waiver of reports, waiver of statements, and/or grant n5 of certain powers contained in O.C.G.A. § 53-12-261.) All interested parties are hereby notified to show cause why said Petition should not be granted. All objections to the Petition must be in writing, setting forth the grounds of any such objections, and must be filed with the Court on or before December 11, 2025.
BE NOTIFIED FURTHER: All objections to the Petition must be in writing, setting forth the grounds of any such objections. All objections should be sworn to before a notary public or before a Probate Court Clerk, and filing fees must be tendered with your objections, unless you qualify to file as an indigent party. Contact Probate Court personnel for the required amount of filing fees. If any objections are filed, a hearing will be scheduled at a later date. If no objections are filed, the Petition may be granted without a hearing.
Gretchen Bailey
Judge of the Probate Court
By A Griffis
Clerk of the Probate Court
36 South Main Street
Baxley, GA 31513
(912) 367-8114
11/19 – 12/10
|
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The City of Baxley will hold a Called Meeting on December 4, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 282 E. Parker Street, Baxley, Georgia. The primary purpose of the Called Meeting will be to conduct a Public Hearing, as well as, any other business that may come before the Mayor and Council. The Public Hearing will offer opportunity for comments on:
APPLICATION FOR ANNEXATION, filed by Thomas M. Thompson, 174 Griffin Street, be annexed establishing a residential (BR-1) zone in voting district 2.
All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in Land Lot No. 292 of the Second Land District of Appling County, Georgia, consisting of 0.536 acre, more or less, being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at the point of intersection of the western right of way of Griffin Street with the southern right of way of Sammy Lane; thence South 38 degrees 06 minutes West 87.85 feet to a point; thence North 60 degrees 41 minutes 18 seconds West 186.9 feet to a point; thence North 34 degrees 10 minutes East 158.7 feet to a point located on the southern right of way of Sammy Lane, thence along and with said road right of way South 39 degrees 50 minutes 20 seconds East 200 feet to the Point of Beginning. This description according to a survey and plat thereof by Denean W. Dixon, GRLS No. 1647, dated January 5, 1995, recorded in Appling county Plat Book 13, page 404, and incorporated herein for a more full and complete description and all other purposes.
CITY OF BAXLEY
11/19 & 11/26
|
NOTICE GEORGIA,
APPLING COUNTY.
All of the creditors of the estate of DIANE SAVAGE HOWARD, deceased, late of Appling County, Georgia, are hereby notified to render in their demands to the undersigned according to law, and all persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This the 18th day of November, 2025.
Cindy H. Samples, Executor
c/o THOMAS & SETTLE, Attorneys
P.O. Box 980/800 Plant Ave.
Waycross, GA 31501
Thomas & Settle
Attorneys for Executor
11/26 – 12/17
|
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF
APPLING COUNTY
STATE OF GEORGIA
IN RE: Estate of BETTY JEAN HERRIN, deceased
All creditors of the estate of Betty Jean Herrin, deceased, late of Appling County, Georgia, are hereby notified to render their demands to the undersigned according to law, and all persons indebted to the estate are required to make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This 12th day of November, 2025.
Donald K. Foster, Administrator
Estate of Betty Jean Herrin
5589 Highway 121
Surrency, GA 31563
J. Alexander Johnson
JOHNSONFLOYD LLP
132 W. Parker Street
Baxley, Georgia 31513
912-367-9000
11/26 – 12/17
|
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF
APPLING COUNTY
STATE OF GEORGIA
IN RE: ESTATE OF,
WILLIE WARREN HARRISON,
ESTATE NO 2025-125
PETITION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION
TO: All heirs known and unknown and to whom it may concern
and to whom it may concern:
Deanna Rudd has petitioned for Deanna Rudd to be appointed administrator(s) of the estate of WILLIE WARREN HARRISON deceased, of said county. (The petitioner has also applied for waiver of bond, waiver of reports, waiver of statements, and or grant of certain powers contained in O.C.G.A. § 53-12-261) all interested persons are hereby notified to show cause why said petition should not be granted. All objections to the petition must be in writing setting forth the grounds of any such objections and must be filed with the court on or before December 19, 2025.
BE NOTIFIED FUTHER: All objections to the petition must be in writing setting forth the grounds of any such objections. All objections should be sworn to before a notary public or before a probate court clerk, and filing fees must be tendered with your objections, unless you qualify to file as an indigent part. Contact probate court personnel for the required amount of filing fees. If any objections are filed, a hearing will be scheduled at a later date. If no objections are filed, the petition may be granted without a hearing.
Gretchen Bailey
Judge of the Probate Court
By: Tanya Williams
Clerk of the Probate Court
36 S Main Street
Baxley, GA 31513
912-367-8114
11/26 – 12/17
|
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF APPLING COUNTY
STATE OF GEORGIA
IN RE: PETITION OF
KIMBERLY LATAYE BEARD AND
TOMMY BEARD Jr., FOR THE
ADOPTION OF ELIANA RACHELLE
LEWIS, A MINOR CHILD.
AGE: 3
Children under the age
of 17 yrs Case No:
SUA-2025-004
DOB: 08/06/2021
NOTICE TO LEGAL/ PUTATIVE FATHER
TO: Kendrick Jerome Lewis and Any Unknown or Un-Named Legal or Biological Father
Served Via Publication
You are hereby informed that this petition to adopt has been filed in the Superior Court of
Appling County, Georgia. Said petition seeks to terminate your rights and obligations with respect to the above-listed minor child, and of the child arising from the potential parental relationship, including the right to inheritance. You must respond to this notice in writing to the Clerk of Superior Court of Appling County, Georgia, or by service upon the Attorney of record in this matter, Jennifer Ellis Carver at her address of 413 W. 15th Street, Alma, GA. 31510. A biological father who is not a legal father loses all rights to the child and will neither receive notice nor be entitled to object to the adop4on of the child unless, within 30 days of receipt of such notice, he files: (1) A petition to legitimate the child pursuant to Code Section 19-7-22 as a separate civil action; (2) Notice of the filing of the petition to legitimate with the court in which the action under this Code section, if any, is pending; and (3) Notice of the filing of the petition to legitimate to the person or agency who provided such notice to such biological father.
Should you not wish to contest the termination of your parental rights and adoption by the
Petitioners, you may file a written Surrender of Parental Rights and Final Release for Adoption. You may do so by contacting the attorney for the Petitioners, Jennifer Ellis Carver, 413 W. 15th Street, Alma, Georgia 31510.
This the 22 Day of October, 2025.
11/26 – 12/17
|
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF APPLING COUNTY
STATE OF GEORGIA
IN RE: ESTATE OF
CLFFORD DAVID MANN
DECEASED
ESTATE NO. 2025-116
NOTICE
IN RE: The Petition to Probate Will (and Codicil(s)) in Solemn Form in the above- referenced estate having been duly filed.
TO:
Nannette Mann and all heirs known and unknown and to whom it may concern
This is to notify you to file objection, if there is any, to the petition to probate will in solemn form, in this Court on or, before December 9, 2025.
BE NOTIFIED FURTHER: All objections to the petition must be in writing, setting forth the grounds of any such objections. All objections should be sworn to before a notary public or before a probate court clerk, and filing fees must be tendered with your objections, unless you qualify to file as an indigent party. Contact probate court personnel for the required amount of filing fees. If any objections are filed, a hearing will be scheduled at a later date. lf no objections are filed, the petition may anted without a hearing.
Gretchen Bailey
Judge of the Probate Court
By: Tanya Williams
Clerk of the Probate Court
36 S Main Street
Baxley, GA 31513
912-367-8114
11/26 – 12/17