Public Notices — Dec. 14, 2025
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of David Randolph Brown, Sr., late of Wayne County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned at the address below on or before February 23, 2026, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to the said estate are asked to make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This 23rd day of November, 2025.
David Randolph Brown, Jr.,
Administrator of the Estate of
David Randolph Brown, Sr.
823 Possum Walk Lane
Mebane, NC
27302
Published November 23, 2025,
November 30, 2025, December 7, 2025,
and December 14, 2025
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS
OF TIMOTHY NEIL HARRINGTON
Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of Timothy Neil Harrington, late of Wayne County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said Decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned at the address below on or before February 23, 2026, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to the said estate are asked to make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This the 23rd day of November, 2025.
Kimberly Atkinson, Executor
of the Estate of Timothy Neil Harrington
c/o Caroline Taylor Phillips, Attorney at Law
Warren, Kerr, Walston, Taylor & Smith, L.L.P.
P. O. Box 1616, Goldsboro, NC 27533-1616
Published November 23, 2025,
November 30, 2025, December 7, 2025,
and December 14, 2025
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS
OF LARRY EARL VAUGHN
All persons, firms and corporations having claims against Larry Earl Vaughn, deceased, of Wayne County, are notified to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 2nd day of March, 2026, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This 30th day of November, 2025.
Sandra Denise Vaughn Stokes,
Executor of the Estate
of Larry Earl Vaughn
107 Valleyview Drive
Goldsboro, NC
27534
Published November 30, 2025,
December 7, 2025, December 14, 2025,
and December 21, 2025
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
OF PATRICIA EILEEN O’CONNELL
All persons, firms, and corporations having claims against Patricia Eileen O’Connell, deceased, of Wayne County, are notified to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 9th day of March, 2026, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This 7th day of December, 2025.
Scott Thomas Fisher,
Executor of the Estate
of Patricia Eileen O’Connell
c/o Mark J. Hale, Jr.
Baddour, Parker, Hine & Hale, P.C.
Attorneys for Estate
P.O. Box 916
Goldsboro, NC 27533-0916
(919) 735-7275
December 7, 2025, December 14, 2025, December 21, 2025 and December 28, 2025
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
All persons, firms, and corporations having claims against the Estate of Terry Jeanne Kriger, deceased of Wayne County, are notified to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 9th day of March, 2026, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This 7th day of December, 2025.
Tori Lynn Gautier Administrator of the
Estate of Terry Jeanne Kriger
165 North N.C. 50 Hwy
Faison, NC
28341
December 7, 2025, December 14, 2025, December 21, 2025, and December 28, 2025
GENERAL NOTICE OF TAX
FORECLOSURE SALE
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF WAYNE
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF
JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION
FILE NO. 25CV003650-950
WAYNE COUNTY and the CITY OF GOLDSBORO, Plaintiffs
vs.
WILLIAM HENDERSON, LINDA HENDERSON, Defendants
&
THE PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC., Defendant Lienholder
Under and by virtue of an Order of the Clerk of Superior Court of Wayne County, North Carolina, made and entered in the action entitled “WAYNE COUNTY and the CITY OF GOLDSBORO vs. WILLIAM HENDERSON, ET AL., the undersigned Commissioner will on the 17th day of December, 2025, offer for sale and sell for cash, to the last and highest bidder at public auction, at the courthouse door in Wayne County, North Carolina, in Goldsboro at 10:00 a.m. the following described real property, lying and being in State and County aforesaid and more particularly described as follows:
109 Brogden Street, Goldsboro
(PIN: 3600111523)
BEGINNING at a stake, E.W. Cox’s corner, 190 feet from the corner of Brogden Street and Railroad Street and runs northward with E.W. Cox’s line 177 feet to a ditch, Governor Brogden’s line; thence Eastward with the said ditch 40 feet to a stake; thence southward 127 feet to Brogden Street, thence westward 40 feet to the beginning.
The sale will be made subject to all outstanding city and county taxes and all local improvements assessments against the above-described property not included in the judgment in the above-entitled cause. A deposit of 5 percent (5%) of the successful bid will be required or $750.00, whichever is greater, in the form of cash, certified check or money order.
This the 21st day of November, 2025.
Andrew J. Neal
County Attorney
Attorney for Plaintiff
P.O. Box 227
Goldsboro, NC 27533
(919) 705-1713
Published December 7, 2025,
and December 14, 2025
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF DANNY MASSEY
The undersigned, having qualified as Executor of the Estate of Danny Massey, Deceased, of Wayne County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or before March 14, 2026, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons indebted to the decedent or estate shall please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This 14th day of December, 2025.
James Massey, Administrator
c/o Henry C. Smith, Attorney
Warren, Kerr, Walston, Taylor & Smith, LLP
P.O. Box 1616
Goldsboro, NC 27533-1616
(919) 734-1841
Published December 14, 2025, December 21, 2025, December 28, 2025, and January 4, 2025
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