Public Notices

Legal 405
Georgia
Pike County
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
All creditors of the estate of Wayne Marshall Smith, of Pike 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 the 16th of August, 2010.
Ginger Marie Smith Mitchell
Co-Administratrix
Sharon Joann Smith Royl
Co-Administratrix
Eugene W. Dabbs IV
Attorney for
Co-Administratrixes
P. O. Box 60
Griffin, Georgia 30224
(770) 229-1234
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Legal 408
Take Notice that:
The right to redeem the following described property, to wit:All that tract or parcel of land containing 2.00 acres lying and being in Land Lot 113 of the Eighth (8th) Land District of Pike County, Georgia and being more particularly shown and designated as 2.00 acres according to that certain plat of survey entitled “Compiled Plat for Timothy D. Simmons and Dana I Simmons” dated March 16, 1994 prepared by Kenneth Edward Pressley, Georgia Registered Professional Land Surveyor, a copy of which plat is recorded in Plat Book 12, Page 37, Pike County, Georgia, Superior Court Clerk’s Office, and which said plat together with the metes, bounds, courses and distances as shown thereon with respect to the said 2.00 acres, is by this reference incorporated herein in aid of this description as fully as if copied at length herein.
Will expire and be forever foreclosed and barred on and after the 18th day of October, 2010.
The Tax Deed to which this notice relates is dated the 4th day of August, 2009, and is recorded in the office if the Clerk of Superior Court of Pike County, Georgia, in Deed Book 807, Page 341.
The property may be redeemed at any time before the 18th day of October, 2010 by payment of the redemption price as fixed and provided by law to the undersigned at the following address: PO Box 290, Concord, Georgia 30206.
Please be governed accordingly.
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Legal 409
In the Superior Court of
Pike County
State of Georgia
Civil Action
File No. 2010CV-928
Yogi Jones Berganza
Plaintiff, V
Elmer E. Berganza, Defendant
Notice of Publication
To: Elmer E. Berganza
Guatelmala
You are hereby notified that the above-styled action seeking divorce was filed against you in said Court on August 9, 2010, and that by reason of an Order for Service of Summons by Publication entered by the Court on August 25, 2010, you are hereby commanded and required to file with the Clerk of said Court and serve upon Dwayne C. Singleton, Plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is: 1115 Zebulon Road, Griffin, Georgia 30224, an Answer to the Complaint within 60 days of August, 25, 2010.
Witness, the Honorable Judge of said Court.
This the 1st day of September, 2010.
/s/Carolyn Williams
Spalding County Superior
Court Clerk
Prepared and Presented by:
Dwayne Singleton
State Bar No. 649048
Attorney for Plaintiff
1115 Zebulon Road
Griffin, Georgia 30224
770-227-5300
770-227-5394 fax
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Legal 405
Georgia
Pike County
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
All creditors of the estate of Wayne Marshall Smith, of Pike 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 the 16th of August, 2010.
Ginger Marie Smith Mitchell
Co-Administratrix
Sharon Joann Smith Royl
Co-Administratrix
Eugene W. Dabbs IV
Attorney for
Co-Administratrixes
P. O. Box 60
Griffin, Georgia 30224
(770) 229-1234
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Legal 408
Take Notice that:
The right to redeem the following described property, to wit:All that tract or parcel of land containing 2.00 acres lying and being in Land Lot 113 of the Eighth (8th) Land District of Pike County, Georgia and being more particularly shown and designated as 2.00 acres according to that certain plat of survey entitled “Compiled Plat for Timothy D. Simmons and Dana I Simmons” dated March 16, 1994 prepared by Kenneth Edward Pressley, Georgia Registered Professional Land Surveyor, a copy of which plat is recorded in Plat Book 12, Page 37, Pike County, Georgia, Superior Court Clerk’s Office, and which said plat together with the metes, bounds, courses and distances as shown thereon with respect to the said 2.00 acres, is by this reference incorporated herein in aid of this description as fully as if copied at length herein.
Will expire and be forever foreclosed and barred on and after the 18th day of October, 2010.
The Tax Deed to which this notice relates is dated the 4th day of August, 2009, and is recorded in the office if the Clerk of Superior Court of Pike County, Georgia, in Deed Book 807, Page 341.
The property may be redeemed at any time before the 18th day of October, 2010 by payment of the redemption price as fixed and provided by law to the undersigned at the following address: PO Box 290, Concord, Georgia 30206.
Please be governed accordingly.
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Legal 372
In the Juvenile Court
of Pike County
State of Georgia
In the interest of:
S.L.B., a minor female child born on 05/15/2007 to Betsy Leigh Heflin Shultz
Case ##: 114-2010-00118, 00119, 00157
TO: Michael Thomas, biological father; Terry Bozeman, legal father; and John Doe, putative biological father
A hearing on a judicial review and a request to change the permanency plan to non-reunification was held on July 20, 2010, and a Provisional Judicial Review Order and Order Changing Permanency Plan to Non-reunification/Adoption was filed on August 12, 2010, having been brought by the Georgia Department of Human Services acting through the Pike County Department of Family and Children Services regarding the alleged deprivation of the above-named Child in the Juvenile Court of Pike County. The Final hearing on the judicial review and change in permanency plan and a hearing concerning the status of retaining or the appointment of counsel for a Termination of Parental Rights Petition will be heard on October 20, 2010. A hearing concerning a Petition to Terminate Parental Rights will be heard on November 1, 2010. Free copies of said pleadings can be obtained from the Clerk of the Juvenile Court of Pike County, Georgia, whose office is located at 16001 Barnesville Street, Zebulon, Georgia 30295.
By reason of an order for service of summons by publication entered on the 18th day of August, 2010, you are hereby commanded to file with the Clerk of the Juvenile Court of Pike County, Georgia and serve upon Tammy M. Griner, Special Assistant Attorney General, P. O. Box 319, Griffin, Georgia 30224 an answer to said pleadings within sixty (60) days of the date of said order for service by publication.
You are further required to lay any and all business aside and to be and appear before the Juvenile Court of Pike County, Georgia at 9:00 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 and at 9:00 o’clock a.m. on Monday, November 1, 2010, then and there to make a defense and to show cause why said Child should not be dealt with according to the provisions of the Juvenile Court Code of Georgia by reason of an order for service of summons by publication.
Witness the Honorable Ben J. Miller, Jr., Judge, this 18th day of August, 2010.
Carolyn Williams
Clerk, Juvenile Court,
Pike County, Georgia
Tammy M. Griner,
Attorney at Law, P.C.
Special Assistant
Attorney General
Georgia Bar No. 312720
P. O. Box 319
Griffin, Georgia 30224
(770) 567-5507
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