SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE

Notice is hereby given that by authority of a Real Estate Deed of Trust (the “Deed of Trust”) executed by Herman C. Caldwell and wife Genevere Caldwell, to Joseph Coker, Trustee, dated October 9, 2020 and recorded at Instrument Number 202012150048700 in the Register’s Office for Knox County, Tennessee, to secure the indebtedness due to the beneficiary of the Deed of Trust, which has become due and payable by virtue of default in the Deed of Trust on the property hereinafter described; and Y-12 Federal Credit Union, the true and lawful owner and holder of said indebtedness by virtue of assignment from the original holder First State Bank of the Southeast, Inc., having exercised its option to declare the indebtedness due and payable and having made demand for foreclosure pursuant to the Deed of Trust; I, the undersigned, acting under the authority as Substitute Trustee for the beneficiary of the Deed of Trust, will be at the north entrance of the City-County Building, 400 Main Street, Knoxville, Tennessee, on the 15th day of July, 2026, at 11:00 A.M., local time to sell to the highest bidder for cash in bar of all rights waived by said Deed of Trust, the following described property to wit:
SITUATED in the Sixth (6th) Civil District of Knox County, Tennessee and without the corporate limits of the City of Knoxville, Tennessee, and being known and designated as all of Lot 51 in GULFWOOD SUBDIVISION, UNIT 3, as shown by the map of same of record in Map Book 65-S, Page 78, In the Register’s Office for Knox County, Tennessee, to which map specific reference is hereby made for a more particular description.
Subject to all matters shown on plat of Gulfwood Subdivision, Unit 3, of record in Map Book 65-S, Page 78, in the Register’s Office for Knox County, Tennessee.
Being all of the same property conveyed to Herman Caldwell by Warranty Deed of record as Instrument 200903130057454 in the Register’s Office for Knox County, Tennessee.
BELIEVED STREET ADDRESS: 8920 Ormand Lane, Knoxville, Tennessee 37923
TAX PARCEL: 119.CH.050
CURRENT OWNER OF RECORD: Herman Caldwell
PARTY ENTITLED TO ENFORCE THE DEBT: Y-12 Federal Credit Union
The following parties may claim or have an interest in the above-referenced property to be affected by the foreclosure: Dean Knuckles, P.O. Box 532, Pineville, Kentucky 40977-0532; Dean Knuckles, c/o Noah Patton, Esq., 1735 Main Street, Tazewell, Tennessee 37879.
The above-described property will be sold subject to unpaid taxes, all matters shown on any applicable recorded plat; any restrictive covenants, easements, or setback lines that may be applicable; any statutory right of redemption of any governmental agency; any prior liens or encumbrances, including those created by a fixture filing; the rights of tenants or occupants in possession of said premises, if any; and prior claims, or matters whether of record or not, which may encumber the purchaser’s title and any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose. Any applicable notice requirements of T.C.A. 35-5-101 and T.C.A. 35-5-104 have been satisfied.
The real property will be sold AS-IS, WHERE-IS, with no warranties or representations of any kind, express or implied, including without limitation, warranties regarding the condition of the property or the marketability of title, possession, quiet enjoyment, or fitness for a general or particular use or purpose, and the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.
The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day and time certain, without further publication and in accordance with law, upon announcement of such adjournment on the day and at the time and place of sale as set forth above.
If you purchase the property at the foreclosure sale, the entire purchase price is due and payable at the conclusion of the auction in the form of a certified/bank check(s) made payable to the Substitute Trustee. No personal checks will be accepted. As such, you must bring sufficient funds to outbid the lender and any other bidders. Amounts in excess of the winning bid will be refunded to the successful purchaser at the time the foreclosure deed is delivered.
This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or the Substitute Trustee. This sale may be rescinded by the Substitute Trustee at any time.
The proceeds of the sale will be applied first to discharge the costs and charges of executing this trust, including attorney’s fees; next, to all indebtedness remaining unpaid and secured thereby, including all indebtedness owing to Y-12 Federal Credit Union; and next, the balance, if any, shall be paid to those legally entitled thereto.
This notice will run for two (2) weeks in The Knoxville Focus newspaper, run dates June 8, 2026 and June 15, 2026, and will be posted online at www.knoxfocus.com, www.tnpublicnotice.com, and www.foreclosurestn.com for a for a minimum 20 continuous days beginning June 8, 2026.
MATTHEW W. GRAVES
Substitute Trustee
Hodges, Doughty & Carson, PLLC
P. O. Box 869
Knoxville, Tennessee 37901
(865) 292-2307

court notices

NON-RESIDENT NOTICE

TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF JAMES EDWARD DUBOSE and 0 CITYVIEW AVENUE, LOT 29,
SUNSET PARK ADDITION, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 37915

IN RE: PARAGON DEVELOPMENT, L.P., Plaintiff
V.
THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF JAMES EDWARD DUBOSE and 0 CITYVIEW AVENUE, LOT 29,
SUNSET PARK ADDITION, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 37915, Defendants

NO. 212811-1
IN THE CHANCERY COURT FOR KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE
In this Cause, it appearing from the Complaint filed, which is sworn to, that the defendants, THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF JAMES EDWARD DUBOSE and 0 CITYVIEW AVENUE, LOT 29, SUNSET PARK ADDITION, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 37915, non-residents of the State of Tennessee, or whose whereabouts cannot be ascertained upon diligent search and inquiry, so that the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF JAMES EDWARD DUBOSE and 0 CITYVIEW AVENUE, LOT 29, SUNSET PARK ADDITION, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 37915, it is ordered that said defendants, THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF JAMES EDWARD DUBOSE and 0 CITYVIEW AVENUE, LOT 29, SUNSET PARK ADDITION, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 37915, file an answer with the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court at Knoxville, Tennessee and with Luke D. Durham, 265 Brookview Centre Way, Suite 604, Knoxville, Tennessee 37919, within (30) days of the last date of publication or a judgement by default will be taken against you and the cause will be set for hearing Ex-Parte as to you before Chancellor John F. Weaver at the Knox County Chancery Court, Division I, 400 Main Street, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902.
This notice will be published in The Knoxville Focus newspaper for four (4) consecutive weeks.
This 14th day of MAY, 2026.
J. Scott Griswold
Clerk and Master

NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION

TO: DARREN R. GOSSAGE

IN RE: THE ESTATE OF MARY WALKER TRENT (Deceased)

BY: KELSEY R. REILLY, Administrator/Petitioner
Vs.
DARREN R. GOSSAGE, Respondent/Defendant

CASE NO. 90180-2
IN THE CHANCERY COURT FOR KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE, PROBATE DIVISION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, concerning the Estate of Mary Walker Trent, deceased, it appearing from the Petition to Marshal Assets and Sell Real Estate filed herein that the Defendant, DARREN R. GOSSAGE, whose whereabouts cannot be ascertained upon diligent search and inquiry so that the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon DARREN R. GOSSAGE, it is ordered that said Defendant, DARREN R. GOSSAGE, file an answer with the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court, Probate Division, at Knoxville, Tennessee and with Kelsey R. Reilly, Administrator, whose address is Spicer Rudstrom, PLLC, 800 South Gay Street, #1400, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37929, Telephone 865- 673-8516, within thirty (30) days of the last date of publication or a judgement of default will be taken against him and the cause set for hearing Ex Parte as to him.
This notice will be published in The Knoxville Focus for four (4) consecutive weeks.
Publication dates: May 18 & 26, and June 1 & 8, 2026.
This the 25th day of MARCH, 2026.
J. Scott Griswold
Clerk and Master

NON-RESIDENT NOTICE

TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF PAUL S. WHITE and MAGGIE LEE WHITE, and 0 BROOKS AVENUE,
KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 37914

IN RE: PARAGON DEVELOPMENT, L.P., Plaintiff
V.
THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF PAUL S. WHITE and MAGGIE LEE WHITE, and 0 BROOKS
AVENUE, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 37914, Defendants
NO. 212810-2
IN THE CHANCERY COURT FOR KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE
In this Cause, it appearing from the Complaint filed, which is sworn to, that the defendants, THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF PAUL S. WHITE and MAGGIE LEE WHITE, and 0 BROOKS AVENUE, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 37914, non-residents of the State of Tennessee, or whose whereabouts cannot be ascertained upon diligent search and inquiry, so that the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon UNKNOWN HEIRS OF PAUL S. WHITE and MAGGIE LEE WHITE, and 0 BROOKS AVENUE, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 37914, it is ordered that said defendants, UNKNOWN HEIRS OF PAUL S. WHITE and MAGGIE LEE WHITE, and 0 BROOKS AVENUE, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 37914, file an answer with the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court at Knoxville, Tennessee and with Luke D. Durham, 265 Brookview Centre Way, Suite 604, Knoxville, Tennessee 37919, within (30) days of the last date of publication or a judgement by default will be taken against you and the cause will be set for hearing Ex-Parte as to you before Chancellor Richard B. Armstrong at the Knox County Chancery Court, Division II, 400 Main Street, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902.
This notice will be published in The Knoxville Focus newspaper for four (4) consecutive weeks.
This 14th day of MAY, 2026.
J. Scott Griswold
Clerk and Master

NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION

TO: MARIA DE JESUS GROTH

IN RE: DANIEL JAMES GROTH, Plaintiff
v.
MARIA DE JESUS GROTH, Defendant

DOCKET NO. 213039-3
IN THE CHANCERY COURT FOR KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE
In this cause, it appearing from the Motion for Service of Publication and the affidavits of the process servers that your whereabouts are unknown to Plaintiff so that ordinary process of law cannot be served, you, MARIA DE JESUS GROTH, Defendant, are hereby notified that you are required to file with the Chancery Court of Knox County at Knoxville, Tennessee, your defense or Answer to the Petition filed against you in said cause. A notice shall be published for four consecutive weeks in The Knoxville Focus in Knoxville, TN. Within 30 days of the fourth publication, a true copy of your defense or Answer to the Petition filed against you, MARIA DE JESUS GROTH, Defendant, must be filed in this case and served on Jedidiah C. McKeehan, of McKeehan Law Group, LLC, whose address is 6705 Albunda Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee 37919.
In case of your failure to do so, judgment by default may be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
This the 18th day of May, 2026.
Christopher D. Heagerty
Chancellor

NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION

TO: EDDIE JONES, CHARLES CHANDLER, DELOISE WELLS, TRACY HERMAN, VINCENT BROWN,
JEWELLE CHANDLER, NIGINA C. TURNER, HOWARD L. TURNER, DEON TURNER, CHILDREN
OF JAMES CHANDLER, and ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS OF IRA GRIMES, SR., (Deceased)

IN RE: GABRIEL B. COLE, Petitioner/Administrator
Vs.
EDDIE JONES, CHARLES CHANDLER, DELOISE WELLS, TRACY HERMAN, VINCENT BROWN,
JEWELLE CHANDLER, NIGINA C. TURNER, HOWARD L. TURNER, DEON TURNER,
CHILDREN OF JAMES CHANDLER, AND ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS OF IRA GRIMES, SR.,
(Deceased), Defendants

No. 86147-1
IN THE CHANCERY COURT FOR KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE,
PROBATE DIVISION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Gabriel B. Cole, Attorney and Administrator of the Estate of IRA GRIMES, SR.,, deceased, has filed a Petition to Marshal Assets and Sell the Real Estate of the decedent.
It appearing from the Petition to Marshal Assets and Sell Real Estate filed herein that the whereabouts of Defendants EDDIE JONES, CHARLES CHANDLER, DELOISE WELLS, TRACY HERMAN, VINCENT BROWN, JEWELLE CHANDLER, NIGINA C. TURNER, HOWARD L. TURNER, DEON TURNER, CHILDREN OF JAMES CHANDLER, and ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS OF IRA GRIMES, SR. (Deceased), cannot be ascertained upon diligent search and inquiry so that the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon them. It is ordered that said Defendants EDDIE JONES, CHARLES CHANDLER, DELOISE WELLS, TRACY HERMAN, VINCENT BROWN, JEWELLE CHANDLER, NIGINA C. TURNER, HOWARD L. TURNER, DEON TURNER, CHILDREN OF JAMES CHANDLER and ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS OF IRA GRIMES, SR., (Deceased), file an answer with the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court, Probate Division, at Knoxville, Tennessee and with Gabriel B. Cole, Administrator, whose address is 550 W. Main St., Ste. 750, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37902, Telephone 865-368-8828, within thirty (30) days of the last date of publication of this Notice or a judgement of default will be taken against them and the cause set for hearing Ex Parte as to them.
This notice will be published in The Knoxville Focus for four (4) consecutive weeks.
Entered this 20th day of May, 2026.

Hon. J. Scott Griswold
Clerk & Master

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF DONALD EUGENE ALLEMAN
DOCKET NUMBER 92494-3
Notice is hereby given that on the 20th day of MAY, 2026, letters testamentary in respect of the Estate of DONALD EUGENE ALLEMAN, who died March 9, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the Clerk and Master of the above named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first date of the publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 20th day of MAY, 2026

ESTATE OF DONALD EUGENE ALLEMAN

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
ROBYN MAE O’DELL
111 RENDEZVOUS ROAD
ROCKWOOD, TN 37854

RIA DONELLA LANGFORD
8330 ROGERS LANE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37920

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF CHARLOTTE RUTH BRABSON
DOCKET NUMBER 92468-1
Notice is hereby given that on the 22 day of MAY, 2026, Letters of Testamentary/Administration in respect to the Estate of CHARLOTTE RUTH BRABSON, deceased, who died on December 2, 2025, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division for Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured against his/her Estate are required to file the same in triplicate with the Clerk and Master of the above named Court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claim will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the Decedent’s date of death.
This the 22 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF CHARLOTTE RUTH BRABSON

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
DARRYL BELL, JR.
146 VERMILLION DRIVE
COLUMBIA, SC 29209

SCOTT B. HAHN, ATTORNEY
5344 N. BROADWAY, SUITE 101
KNOXVILLE, TN 37918

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF JANET BUCKNER
DOCKET NUMBER 92548-2
Notice is hereby given that on the 22nd day of MAY, 2026, letters administration (or letters of testamentary as the case may be) in respect of the Estate of JANET BUCKNER, who died March 20, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the Estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above-named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this Notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this Notice to Creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the Notice to Creditors if the creditor received the copy of the Notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 22nd day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF JANET BUCKNER

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
BRUCE GUILLAUME
257 DISCO LOOP RD.
FRIENDSVILLE, TN 37737

LEIGH COWDEN, ATTORNEY
416 HIGH ST.
MARYVILLE, TN 37804

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF EDITH R. BULLOCK
DOCKET NUMBER 92550-3
Notice is hereby given that on the 22 day of MAY, 2026, letters testamentary in respect of the Estate of EDITH R. BULLOCK, who died January 29, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above-named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 22 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF EDITH R. BULLOCK

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
KATHERINE G. KERR
229 PAINE DRIVE
WINTER HAVEN, FL 33884

DANIEL F. WILKINS, ATTORNEY
7632 GLEASON DRIVE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37919

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF JOSEPH BENJAMIN BURNETTE
DOCKET NUMBER 92445-1
Notice is hereby given that on the 22 day of MAY, 2026, letters of Administration in respect of the Estate of JOSEPH BENJAMIN BURNETTE, who died on March 30, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above-named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 22 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF JOSEPH BENJAMIN BURNETTE

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
THOMAS BURNETTE
5412 SPRINGPLACE CIRCLE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37924

M. SUE WHITE, ATTORNEY
216 PHOENIX CT., SUITE D
SEYMOUR, TN 37865

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF SYLVIA H. GORDON
DOCKET NUMBER 92453-3
Notice is hereby given that on the 20th day of MAY, 2026, letters testamentary in respect of the Estate of SYLVIA H. GORDON, who died March 27, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against his or her estate are required to file the same with the Clerk and Master of the above named Court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 20th day of May, 2026.

ESTATE OF SYLVIA H. GORDON

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
GREGORY A. GORDON
2217 ONION CREEK PARKWAY, #116
AUSTIN, TX 78747

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF PATRICIA BRIGHT HARRS
DOCKET NUMBER 92551-3
Notice is hereby given that on the 26th day of MAY, 2026, letters testamentary (or letters of administration as the case may be) in respect to the estate of PATRICIA BRIGHT HARRS, who died March 3, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above-named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 26th day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF PATRICIA BRIGHT HARRS

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
PRISCILLA ANN BRIGHT
12047 WOODHOLLOW LANE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37932

BRADLEY S. LEWIS, ATTORNEY
10413 KINGSTON PIKE, SUITE 200
KNOXVILLE, TN 37922

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF LARRY LATEN JONES
DOCKET NUMBER 92527-1
Notice is hereby given that on the 22 day of MAY, 2026, letters testamentary in respect of the Estate of LARRY LATEN JONES, who died Feb. 9, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against his or her estate are required to file the same with the Clerk and Master of the above named Court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B} Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A}; or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 22 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF LARRY LATEN JONES

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
TRACY NICOLE JONES, EXECUTRIX
4125 WOODLAWN PIKE, APT. D-12
KNOXVILLE, TN 37920

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF CHARLES KENT KENNARD
DOCKET NUMBER 92542-1
Notice is hereby given that on the 21 day of MAY, 2026, Letters Testamentary in respect to the Estate of CHARLES KENT KENNARD, who died on April 25, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Probate Court for Knox County, Tennessee. All persons resident and non­resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the Estate are required to file the same with the Clerk of the above-named Court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2) below, otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this Notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this Notice to Creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the Notice to Creditors if the creditor received the copy of the Notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 21 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF CHARLES KENT KENNARD

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
KEVIN HUXLEY KENNARD
5115 JONE ROAD
KNOXVILLE, TN 37918

KEVIN N. PERKEY
900 SOUTH GAY STREET, 9th FLOOR
P. O. BOX 900
KNOXVILLE, TN 37901-0900

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF RICHARD KRUKIEWICZ
DOCKET NUMBER 92426-2
Notice is hereby given that on the 21st day of MAY, 2026, letters administration in respect of the Estate of RICHARD KRUKIEWICZ, who died Feb. 8, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against his or her estate are required to file the same with the Clerk and Master of the above named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 21st day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF RICHARD KRUKIEWICZ

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
CASEY MARIE CHUKWU
112 CHATTERSON DR.
RALEIGH, NC 27615

REGAN CARUTHERS, ATTORNEY
200 PROSPERITY DR., STE. 136
KNOXVILLE, TN 37923

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF PATRICIA PRATT LYLE
DOCKET NUMBER 92541-2
Notice is hereby given that on the 21st day of MAY, 2026, Letters Testamentary in respect to the Estate of PATRICIA PRATT LYLE, who died on April 6, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court, Probate Division of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against her estate are required to file the same with the Clerk and Master of the above-named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 21st day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF PATRICIA PRATT LYLE

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
ELISABETH LYLE SCOTT
10805 TOPVIEW LANE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37934

H. STEPHEN GILLMAN, ATTORNEY
P. O. BOX 870
KNOXVILLE, TN 37901

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF JAMES ALEXANDER MARCUM
DOCKET NUMBER 92554-1
Notice is hereby given that on the 22 day of MAY, 2026, letters testamentary (or letters of administration as the case may be) in respect of the Estate of JAMES ALEXANDER MARCUM, who died April 12, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non­resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above-named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 22 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF JAMES ALEXANDER MARCUM

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
MICHAEL DAVID MARCUM
601 CENTEROAK DRIVE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37920

BRADLEY S. LEWIS, ATTORNEY
10413 KINGSTON PIKE, SUITE 200
KNOXVILLE, TN 37922

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF JULIE MATTHEWS-HOLBERG
DOCKET NUMBER 92540-3
Notice is hereby given that on the 21 day of MAY, 2026, letters testamentary in respect of the Estate of JULIE MATTHEWS-HOLBERG, who died on March 22, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by Chancery Court for Knox County, Tennessee, Probate Division. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above­named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first date of the publication of this Notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this Notice To Creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the Notice To Creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 21 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF JULIE MATTHEWS-HOLBERG

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
KARSTEN HOLBERG
1414 RUDDER LANE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37919

CRAIG ANDREW HUGHES
9817 GIVERNY CIRCLE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37922

L. ERIC EBBERT, ATTORNEY
BRENT BAXLEY, ATTORNEY
9145 CROSS PARK DR., SUITE 103
KNOXVILLE, TN 37923

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF DONALD R. MINK
DOCKET NUMBER 92532-1
Notice is hereby given that on the 22 day of MAY, 2026, letters testamentary in respect of the Estate of DONALD R. MINK, who died March 15, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against his or her estate are required to file the same with the Clerk and Master of the above named Court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B} Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A}; or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 22 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF DONALD R. MINK

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
VICKIE T. MINK, EXECUTRIX
4508 FAWNIE LANE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37918
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF JEFFREY LYNN PARKER
DOCKET NUMBER 92535-3
Notice is hereby given that on the 20th day of MAY, 2026, letters testamentary in respect of the Estate of JEFFREY LYNN PARKER, who died March 20, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against his or her estate are required to file the same with the Clerk and Master of the above named Court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 20th day of May, 2026.

ESTATE OF JEFFREY LYNN PARKER

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
ALLISON MICHELE GRAHAM
4508 MARSHALL DRIVE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37918

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF CAROL A. PROAPS
DOCKET NUMBER 92518-3
Notice is hereby given that on the 26 day of MAY, 2026, Letters Testamentary in respect of the Estate of CAROL A. PROAPS, who died April 24, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the Estate are required to file the same with the Clerk of the above-named Court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this Notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this Notice to Creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the Notice to Creditors if the creditor received the copy of the Notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 26 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF CAROL A. PROAPS

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
RANDY AND JENNY HOWARD
920 JOHAM CIRCLE
ANCHORAGE, AK 99515

WAYNE R. KRAMER, ATTORNEY
P. O. BOX 629
KNOXVILLE, TN 37901-0629

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF MARY ANN SCARBROUGH
DOCKET NUMBER 92442-1
Notice is hereby given that on the 22 day of MAY, 2026, letters testamentary in respect of the Estate of MARY ANN SCARBROUGH, who died March 11, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against his or her estate are required to file the same with the Clerk and Master of the above named Court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 22 day of May, 2026.

ESTATE OF MARY ANN SCARBROUGH

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
MARY WHITE, EXECUTRIX
732 VERMONT AVENUE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37921

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF BARBARA ANN SMITH-MANIS
DOCKET NUMBER 92509-3
Notice is hereby given that on the 27th day of MAY, 2026, letters of testamentary in respect of the Estate of BARBARA ANN SMITH-MANIS, who died April 22, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Knox County Chancery Court, Probate Division, Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 27th day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF BARBARA ANN SMITH-MANIS

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
JOSEPH ALLEN KING
220 SANDRINGHAM CT.
FARRAGUT, TN 37934

KIMBERLY SEALS, ATTORNEY
110 COGDILL ROAD
KNOXVILLE, TN 37922

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF STEVEN TROY STANFORD
DOCKET NUMBER 92544-2
Notice is hereby given that on the 21st day of MAY, 2026, letters of testamentary in respect of the Estate of STEVEN TROY STANFORD, who died on the 5th day of May, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against her estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above-named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 21st day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF STEVEN TROY STANFORD

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
DAVID M. STANFORD
7200 WILLOW PARK LANE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37931

NEVA M. FOUST, ATTORNEY
4641 CHAMBLISS AVENUE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37919

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF HAZEL MARIE THOMPSON
DOCKET NUMBER 92534-1
Notice is hereby given that on the 21 day of MAY, 2026, Letters Testamentary in respect of the Estate of HAZEL MARIE THOMPSON, who died on March 24, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the Clerk of the above­named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first date of the publication of this Notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this Notice To Creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the Notice To Creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 21 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF HAZEL MARIE THOMPSON

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
HELEN RENE BEETS JENKINS, EXECUTRIX
1256 BENTLEY PARK ROAD
KNOXVILLE, TN 37922

PATRICK R. MCKENRICK, ATTORNEY
1019 ORCHID DRIVE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37912

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF HARVEY L. WILLIAMS, JR.
DOCKET NUMBER 92504-3
Notice is hereby given that on the 27th day of MAY, 2026, letters administration in respect of the Estate of HARVEY L. WILLIAMS, JR., who died April 11, 2026 were issued to the undersigned by the Clerk and Master of the Knox County Chancery Court of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication (or posting, as the case may be) of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication (or posting); or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication (or posting) as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 27th day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF HARVEY L. WILLIAMS, JR.

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
CATHY D. PIH
925 PARRISH RD
KNOXVILLE, TN 37923

DAVID B. HAMILTON, ATTORNEY
1810 MERCHANT DR.
KNOXVILLE, TN 37912

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF SARAH PATRICIA ZINGG
DOCKET NUMBER 92480-2
Notice is hereby given that on the 21st day of MAY, 2026, letters testamentary (or letters of administration as the case may be) in respect to the estate of SARAH PATRICIA ZINGG, who died March 20, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident , having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above-named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication (or posting); or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 21st day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF SARAH PATRICIA ZINGG

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
DERRICK STEPHEN ZINGG
701 LAGO CIRCLE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37922

JOHN W. BUTLER, ATTORNEY
2701 KINGSTON PIKE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37919

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF MABEL ARICO
DOCKET NUMBER 92470-3
Notice is hereby given that on the 1st day of JUNE, 2026, letters testamentary (or letters of administration as the case may be) in respect of the Estate of MABEL ARICO, who died March 21, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above-named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 1st day of JUNE, 2026.

ESTATE OF MABEL ARICO

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
GINA INKLEBARGER
675 OAK CHASE BLVD.
LENOIR CITY, TN 37772

DAVID H. LUHN, ATTORNEY
310 N. FOREST PARK BLVD.
KNOXVILLE, TN 37919

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF SHIRLEY M. BARNES
DOCKET NUMBER 92522-3
Notice is hereby given that on the 27th day of MAY, 2026, Letters Testamentary in respect of the Estate of SHIRLEY M. BARNES, who died March 13, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured , against the estate are required to file the same with the Clerk of the above­named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first date of the publication of this Notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this Notice To Creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the Notice To Creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 27th day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF SHIRLEY M. BARNES

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
NANCY ELIZABETH HENSON BLACK
140 BROOKLINE DRIVE
PINEHURST, NC 28374

VICTORIA B. TILLMAN, ATTORNEY
1019 ORCHID DRIVE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37912

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF BERYL L. BOUNDS, JR.
DOCKET NUMBER 92392-3
Notice is hereby given that on the 20th day of MAY, 2026, letters testamentary in respect of the Estate of BERYL L. BOUNDS, JR., who died Nov. 6, 2025, were issued to the undersigned by the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against his or her estate are required to file the same with the Clerk and Master of the above named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 20th day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF BERYL L. BOUNDS, JR.

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
SHARON QUARLES BOUNDS
12812 EAGLEPATH LANE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37922

CAROLYN LEVY GILLIAM, ATTORNEY
10805 KINGSTON PIKE, SUITE 200
KNOXVILLE, TN 37934

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF JOHN WILBERT COOMER
DOCKET NUMBER 92330-1
Notice is hereby given that on the 29 day of MAY, 2026, letters testamentary in respect of the Estate of JOHN WILBERT COOMER, who died Feb. 14, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against his or her estate are required to file the same with the Clerk and Master of the above named Court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 29 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF JOHN WILBERT COOMER

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
JOHN DOUGLAS CONNER, EXECUTOR
2605 27th STREET
LUBBOCK, TX 79410

RYAN S. WORTLEY, ATTORNEY
3715 POWERS STREET
KNOXVILLE, TN 37917

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF BRYAN KEITH ELKINS
DOCKET NUMBER 92553-1
Notice is hereby given that on the 29 day of MAY, 2026, Letters of Administration in respect of the Estate of BRYAN KEITH ELKINS, who died February 4, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured and unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the Clerk and Master of the above-named Court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice, if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death..
This 29 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF BRYAN KEITH ELKINS

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
SUSAN DAWN KISER
8812 HANKINS LANE
POWELL, TN 37849

RYAN S. WORTLEY, ATTORNEY
3715 POWERS STREET
KNOXVILLE, TN 37917

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF WILLIAM L. MASON, JR.
DOCKET NUMBER 92520-3
Notice is hereby given that on the 27th day of MAY, 2026, Letters of Administration in respect of the Estate of WILLIAM L. MASON, JR, who died March 21, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above-named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 27th day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF WILLIAM L. MASON, JR.

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
NATASHA O’NEAL
1632 WISTERIA VIEW WAY
KNOXVILLE, TN 37914

BARBARA W. CLARK, ATTORNEY
2415 E. MAGNOLIA AVENUE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37917

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF ARMENDA JOYCE MCCARTER
DOCKET NUMBER 92558-3
Notice is hereby given that on the 29th day of MAY, 2026, letters of testamentary in respect of the Estate of ARMENDA JOYCE MCCARTER, who died April 9, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Knox Chancery Court, Probate Division. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This 29th day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF ARMENDA JOYCE MCCARTER

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
GENEVA LEE SMITH
317 PETERSON RD.
FARRAGUT, TN 37934

BROOKE GIVENS, ATTORNEY
110 COGDILL ROAD
KNOXVILLE, TN 37922

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF DINAH LYNN MCGLOTHLIN
DOCKET NUMBER 92395-3
Notice is hereby given that on JUNE 1, 2026, letters of administration (or letters of testamentary as the case may be) in respect of the Estate of DINAH LYNN MCGLOTHLIN, who died January 31, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This 1st day of JUNE, 2026.

ESTATE OF DINAH LYNN MCGLOTHLIN

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
SUZANNA C. FULTON
318 HAMILTON PARKWAY
EASLEY, SC 29642

LYNN TARPY, ATTORNEY
1111 NORTHSHORE DR.
LANDMARK TOWER NORTH, STE. N-290
KNOXVILLE, TN 37919

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF KATHY ELIZABETH MILLER
DOCKET NUMBER 92492-1
Notice is hereby given that on the 29 day of MAY, 2026, Letters of Administration in respect of the Estate of KATHY ELIZABETH MILLER, who died March 30, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured and unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the Clerk and Master of the above-named Court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice, if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death..
This 29 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF KATHY ELIZABETH MILLER

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
DENNIS C. MILLER
3809 PLEASANT RIDGE ROAD
KNOXVILLE, TN 37921

MELISSA WORTLEY LAWING, ATTORNEY
3715 POWERS STREET
KNOXVILLE, TN 37917

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF JAMES M. MOORE
DOCKET NUMBER 92559-2
Notice is hereby given that on the 27th day of MAY, 2026, letters of testamentary in respect of the Estate of JAMES M. MOORE, who died February 13, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This 27th day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF JAMES M. MOORE

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
JANICE M. MOORE
12924 GREELEY LANE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37934

BROOKE GIVENS, ATTORNEY
110 COGDILL ROAD
KNOXVILLE, TN 37922

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF NANCY LEE MOORMAN
DOCKET NUMBER 92451-1
Notice is hereby given that on the 29 day of MAY, 2026, letters administration in respect of the Estate of NANCY LEE MOORMAN, who died March 5, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against his or her estate are required to file the same with the Clerk and Master of the above named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 29 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF NANCY LEE MOORMAN

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
RUSSELL F. MOORMAN, II, ADMINISTRATOR
4219 WASHINGTON PIKE
KNOXVILLE, TN 37917

DANIEL A. SANDERS, ATTORNEY
920 VOLUNTEER LANDING, SUITE 200
KNOXVILLE, TN 37915

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF JOE ELAM NUNNALLY
DOCKET NUMBER 92281-1
Notice is hereby given that on the 29 day of MAY, 2026, letters testamentary in respect of the Estate of JOE ELAM NUNNALLY, who died Dec. 27, 2025, were issued to the undersigned by the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against his or her estate are required to file the same with the Clerk and Master of the above named Court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of this first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 29 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF JOE ELAM NUNNALLY

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
FRANCES ELEANOR NUNNALLY, EXECUTRIX
7300 GINGHAM ROAD
KNOXVILLE, TN 37918

DANIEL R. GOODGE, ATTORNEY
224 N. MAIN STREET
CLINTON, TN 37716

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF JERRY PEARL TAYLOR
DOCKET NUMBER 92547-3
Notice is hereby given that on the 27th day of MAY, 2026, letters testamentary in respect of the Estate of JERRY PEARL TAYLOR, who died Feb. 19, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the Clerk and Master of the above named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first date of the publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A);or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 27th day of MAY, 2026

ESTATE OF JERRY PEARL TAYLOR

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
JEFFERY STEPHEN TAYLOR
7640 BORUFF ROAD
CORRYTON, TN 37721

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF CHERYL E. WILLIAMS
DOCKET NUMBER 92478-1
Notice is hereby given that on the 29 day of MAY, 2026, letters of administration in respect of the Estate of CHERYL E. WILLIAMS, who died March 12, 2026, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court, Probate Division, of Knox County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the clerk of the above-named court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred:
(1)(A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication; or
(B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication as described in (1)(A); or
(2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent’s date of death.
This the 29 day of MAY, 2026.

ESTATE OF CHERYL E. WILLIAMS

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S)
CHELSEA KIRBY WILLIAMS, ADMINISTRATOR
7011 LEOPARD WAY, APT. 402
KNOXVILLE, TN 37918

STEVEN K. BOWLING, ATTORNEY
861 EBENEZER ROAD
P. O. BOX 11125
KNOXVILLE, TN 37939-1125

misc. Notices

Public Notice

Request for Bids – KCDC, the Public Housing Authority for Knoxville & Knox County, posts all of its solicitations at www.kcdc.org/procurement. Click on ‘Open Solicitations’ and follow the link.

PUBLIC NOTICE

Knoxville-Knox County Continuum of Care Board Meeting
When: June 18, 2026, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Where: United Way of Greater Knoxville, 1301 Hannah Avenue
Details: Meeting is open to the public.
To sign up for public forum, please email office@knoxtnhousing.org.
Agenda available by June 11 at knoxtnhousing.org

PUBLIC NOTICE

APPLICATION FOR TITLE

Dale J. Montpelier, Jr. hereby serves notice that he/she intends to apply for a title on a vehicle described
as follows: 2006 GENERAL MOTORS SIERRA 4-DOOR TRUCK, Vehicle Identification Number 2GTEK63N961218977. Any and all parties holding an interest in said vehicle must contact Dale J. Montpelier, Jr. by certified mail, return receipt requested, within ten (10) business days of the date of this publication to 319 Suburban Road, Knoxville, TN 37923.
Published in The Knoxville Focus Monday, June 8, 2026

“NWS has not been detected in Tennessee, but we want to be proactively working to prevent the establishment of this pest in Tennessee,” State Veterinarian Samantha Beaty said. “Livestock, pets and even wildlife are vulnerable. This parasite can have a tremendous negative impact on our animal populations and associated industries. Early detection is our best defense. Our priority now is to prepare — to ensure surveillance, movement controls, and response plans are in place so that if we do detect NWS, we can act swiftly to protect the health of Tennessee’s animals and our agricultural industries.”

The State Veterinarian has instituted a temporary order implementing more stringent requirements for warm-blooded animals moving out of an infested area into Tennessee. These stricter requirements ensure that animals are thoroughly inspected and prophylactically treated prior to movement and allow officials to effectively implement other control measures.

In addition to the temporary order, the State Veterinarian’s Office is focused on implementing enhanced surveillance measures and providing outreach and education related to prevention, management and treatment.

TDA Animal Health field staff and Foreign Animal Disease diagnosticians are ready with materials to collect and submit larvae and fly specimens should a suspected case arise. This preparedness ensures that any detection can be confirmed quickly and accurately.

If you are a livestock producer, pet owner, veterinarian or interact with wildlife:

• Inspect animals regularly, especially any wounds, tick bite sites, dehorning or ear‐tagging areas, or orifices, for signs of infestation.
• Limit the movement of animals that may have been exposed, especially if traveling near the U.S.-Mexico border region or through areas with confirmed cases.
• If you suspect NWS, contact the State Veterinarian’s Office at 615-837-5120 or the USDA Area Veterinarian in Charge at 615-517-2642. On weekends and evenings, call 866-536-7593.

The following are USDA information links on New World screwworm:

New World Screwworm

Pest Alert: New World Screwworm

New World Screwworm What You Need to Know

Stop Screwworm: Unified Government Response to Protect the U.S.

USDA New World Screwworm Emergency Response

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is monitoring the spread of NWS and coordinating with USDA, Department of the Interior and other federal and non-governmental partners using the One Health approach to prevent spread to people and animals, both domestic, including livestock and companion animals, and wild animals.

NWS was previously found in the United States, Mexico and Central America. It was eradicated in the United States in the 1960s, in Mexico in the 1970s, and in Central America in the early 2000s.

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture Animal Health Division is responsible for promoting animal health in Tennessee. The State Veterinarian’s Office seeks to prevent the spread of disease through import and movement requirements, livestock traceability, disaster mitigation, and the services of the C.E. Kord Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory. The division collaborates with other health-related stakeholders, academic institutions, and extension services to support One Health, an initiative to improve health for people and animals.

By Pete Gawda

Limiting student use of computers and age-appropriate books were hot topics at the Thursday, June 4, meeting of the Knox County Board of Education, attracting a lot of attention from board members as well as interested citizens.

A law enacted this year by the General Assembly requires each school system to adopt a policy governing the use of digital devices for students in grades K-5 with the intent of minimizing unnecessary screen time.

To aid in the implementation of this law, Katherine Bike offered a resolution to form a committee to make recommendations to the board regarding “safe, healthy and effective use of technology in the classroom.” Her idea was for the committee to start work before the start of the next school year.

“We didn’t get here overnight,” was the opinion of Kristi Kristy. “I don’t think there will be a quick fix. It’s going to be a challenge.”

“I appreciate this resolution because it gives the board a selective voice,’ said Ann Templeton.

“I believe a resolution is important because it is a commitment to what we want to happen,” was the opinion of Patricia Fontenot-Ridley.

Several speakers from the audience spoke in favor of limiting computer access for students and recording students’ screen time. One parent called on the board to evaluate and justify all technology. Another speaker expressed concern about eye strain in children caused by excessive screen time and the advertisements that young children would be exposed to on YouTube.

However, Superintendent Jon Rysewyk disagreed with the need for the resolution. “We are 100 percent committed to it,” he said of researching student use of computers. He went on to say that since the staff is off for the summer, major changes should not be made until school starts.

In a split vote, the board defeated the resolution. With the nine-member board, it would take five votes for an item to pass. Bike, Templeton, Fontenot-Ridley and Betsy Henderson voted yes. Steve Triplett, Lauren Morgan and Kristy Kristi voted no, while Travis Wright and John Butler passed.

Turning to age-appropriate books, the General Assembly recently amended the Age-Appropriate Materials Act. Templeton offered a resolution urging the General Assembly to restore to the law the requirement that all books be evaluated as a complete work. Any objectionable content in a book would be evaluated against the entire book’s “historical significance, literary merit, educational purpose, religious significance and overall effect.” The resolution also urged that the period of time that a local school system has to evaluate a questionable book be changed from 60 to 90 days. In addition, it urged that school districts be allowed to evaluate books by developmental level.

Templeton said this was an attempt to get the General Assembly to take another look at the law and “make it better.”

The resolution passed with Triplett, Morgan, Wright and Henderson voting no.

Bike then made a motion that did not pass, requesting that all 123 books currently banned from school libraries be reinstated and reevaluated again when the board adopts a new policy in compliance with recent revisions of the law. She was the only board member voting yes with Butler, Templeton and Fontenot-Ridley passing.

Recent discussion of revisions to the Age-Appropriate Materials Act sparked interest in the legality of the book “Roots” being on school library shelves. Superintendent Rysewyk said he had consulted several lawyers and found that there were differences of opinion on the subject. Therefore, he decided to “err on the side of access” and allow the book to remain in libraries.

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Brent Gibson Won The Primary, It’s Time To Move On To The General Election

The complaint of Michael Davis, one of four candidates in the recent GOP primary for Knox County Sheriff, will be heard this Wednesday by the Tennessee Republican Party  Executive Committee.  The sum of Davis’s complaint is that two of the four candidates were indicted following the primary election.  Davis contends that had people known of the impending indictments, they might have voted otherwise. Davis ran a distant third with approximately 14% of the vote.  The winner of the Republican primary was Brent Gibson, who won 44% of the vote, outdistancing all of his opponents.

There are any number of complaints that an unsuccessful candidate can make after an election, contending that voters might have voted this way or that way had they been aware of one thing or another. The indictments for the two candidates came after the election.  Neither came close to winning the primary.  To overturn the results of an election and the decision reached by the sovereign voters is a very serious thing and should only occur in very rare circumstances. There have been examples of even a dead man winning an election, like in 2000 when the late Governor of Missouri Mel Carnahan beat Senator John Ashcroft – yet there was no “do over.” Voters went to the polls and voted knowing Carnahan was dead.  Carnahan’s widow was appointed to the seat, and voters voted her out in a special election two years later.

Brent Gibson came pretty close to winning an outright majority in the primary.  It seems highly doubtful that either of the indicted candidates ran thinking they would be indicted.

To overturn the results of a legitimate primary election to run another race in this instance is pure foolishness.  There is no need for it.  Brent Gibson won the Republican primary and is the standard-bearer for the Republican Party in the coming general election.  It is time to move beyond any wounds inflicted by the primary and win the general election.

Teachers Unions And Test Scores

Randi Weingarten, the president-for-life of the American Federation of Teachers, has just issued a “call to arms.”  Evidently, Weingarten has concerned herself with the decade-long slide of test scores among students.  Of course, Weingarten has already identified the culprit: devices and screens.

Most Americans can remember Randi Weingarten as having fought fiercely to keep our schools closed for the better part of two years during the beginning and aftermath of the Covid scare. When the Trump administration urged that schools be reopened in July 2020, Weingarten screamed it was “reckless” as well as “cruel.”  There were those here who accused our county commissioners of having murdered people when they removed the board of health from dictating every policy as it prepared to cross county lines to admonish those wicked Blount Countians.  Some of those same people applauded the most vocal and hysterical amongst them, who carelessly maligned good public officials who didn’t follow the progressive/Marxist line.  They applauded censorship, demanded the public humiliation and firing of those who asked questions, and insisted anything save for the official government line during the Biden years was a “conspiracy theory.”  My, how things change, and every aspect of what they insisted was their orthodoxy and dogma has been proven to be ridiculous and, in many cases, harmful.  The closure of our schools has been particularly harmful to children through both isolation and test scores.  Many students suffered from increasing anxiety as well as serious bouts of depression during the school closures. It also had serious consequences in affecting their social development. Experts warn us that those issues will likely remain with us for a generation.

Internal emails from an investigation by the US House of Representatives proved the American Federation of Teachers had access to a draft involving the Centers for Disease Control before it was finalized and released to the American people.  Statistics later proved that the stronger the teacher union was in a jurisdiction, the more likely the local school system was to remain closed.  Instead, students faced the screens that Randi Weingarten has named as one of the chief culprits of the downslide in student test scores.

The National Education Association has poured more than $50 million into campaigns through its recent financial disclosures.  State and local governments have poured money into our school systems with far fewer good results, as many of the problems faced by students cannot be solved by dollars alone.  And we have spent more on diversity, equity and silly policies than we have in teaching the basics.  We have met the enemy and he is us.

Jill Biden’s New Book An Exercise In Gaslighting

Gaslighting has become part and parcel of the bag of tricks employed by Leftists every day of the week.  Jill Biden has a new book coming out, and she is making the rounds, and she has turned the gas on full blast.  During the disastrous live debate with Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the First Lady said her husband’s behavior, which she had not seen before or since, caused her to worry he was having a stroke.  Did she order Biden taken to a hospital to be examined?  No, instead, she took him to a Waffle House where she praised him for answering all the questions and said he did a great job.  Dr. Jill has offered an explanation that a good wife must try and support her husband, hence her saying he answered all the questions and praising him for having done a great job.  In the next breath, Mrs. Biden says doctors had checked out the oldest man who has ever served as our president and pronounced him fit to run for and serve another four years at age 82.  Yet those doctors, who declared Old Joe was fit enough to run and serve another four years, missed the fact that Biden had stage 4 prostate cancer.

Jill was as surprised as Jake Tapper, who tried gaslighting what everyone could see for themselves and later wrote his own book about the cover-up he participated in.  Is anybody else surprised?  Not a bit.

Knox County held its annual tax sale early last week.

The final numbers weren’t in by press time, but Knox County Trustee Justin Biggs couldn’t have been happier.

“The thing that’s the most exciting to me is that we’ve got these properties back on the tax rolls in Knox County,” Biggs said after Tax Sale 25 brought in record numbers. “We thought Tax Sale 24 was good, but this one is even better.

“It’s gotten better every year. Some of these properties have been delinquent for seven or eight years, and some of it, nobody has claimed. On some of it, you have heirs, and that’s unfortunate.”

The tax sale is a last resort for Knox County to recover delinquent taxes.

“Tax sales are an important part of the delinquent tax collection process to help return properties to productive use while ensuring fairness to taxpayers,” Biggs said.

Biggs and Knox County Clerk and Master Scott Griswold rotated as auctioneers at the auction, which was held Tuesday at the Knoxville Expo Center’s Grande Event Center. Together the duo combined to sell close to 200 delinquent parcels on a day where bidding got fast and furious at times as people with deep pockets placed bids on delinquent properties.

“When Scott and I rotated, that helped a lot,” Biggs said.

The event, which is held annually to collect outstanding tax debt, has gotten bigger every year, and Biggs noted that the county has revolutionized tax auctions.

“Our tax sale in Knox County has set the standards for tax sales in Tennessee,” he said.

Biggs said the final numbers from the event will be available this week.

By Ray Hill
Charles Edison was the son of one of America’s foremost innovators and entrepreneurs, Thomas Alva Edison.  Thomas A. Edison is perhaps the best remembered inventor in American history.  Yet when Charles Edison died, the Paterson Morning Call editorialized that the son “was no smudged carbon copy of a famous father.”  Edison’s father is still remembered today and the son’s memory has faded, but he had a notable career of his own, serving as Secretary of the Navy under President Franklin Roosevelt and as governor of New Jersey.  Although Edison only served a single three-year term as governor, one New Jersey newspaper insisted his time in the chief executive’s office should not be dismissed as “they were highly significant years.”  When Edison died, Governor Richard J. Hughes hailed his predecessor.  “Governor Edison was a man of many talents,” Hughes said.  “He applied himself successfully as a scientist, businessman, government executive, governor and poet.”

“Gov. Charles Edison brought to the state house the naivete of a farmer in the dell and the burning zeal of a true missionary,” the Jersey Journal recalled.

Indeed, Charles Edison was no pale impression of his famous father.  The younger Edison had a mind of his own and was in turn, a businessman, executive, elected official and philanthropist.  Edison chaired the company founded by his father and the company it merged with, McGraw-Edison, until his voluntary retirement in 1961.  The Thomas A. Edison Company comprised more than a dozen affiliated enterprises.  The company had been appraised at $12 million (about $252 million today) by the time Thomas Edison died in 1931.

Although raised in wealth, Charles Edison liked people and enjoyed hard work.  Edison’s first business was as a theatrical impresario, where his company staged plays, although he had earned a degree in electrical engineering.  Thomas Edison then insisted his son learn the family business “from the bottom up” and paid Charles $35 a week in the beginning.  The younger Edison ran Edison Records for a period of time before heading the Thomas A. Edison Company in 1927 at age thirty-five.  Charles Edison continued to head the Edison Company until its merger with the McGraw Electric Company in 1957.  Following the merger, Edison chaired the McGraw-Edison Company until he retired in 1961.  Edison had married Carolyn Hawkins, who was from Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1918, and they remained together until her death in 1963.  The couple had no children.

Edison’s entry into politics came as something of an accident.  Edison had been named Secretary of the Navy after the death of the incumbent, Claude A. Swanson, who had held every elective office of importance in Virginia.  New Jersey Democrats were desperately searching for a candidate to run for governor who could not be tarred as a stooge of the notorious Hudson County political machine run by Frank Hague, mayor of Jersey City.  They settled on Charles Edison, who resigned his post as Secretary of the Navy to return to the Garden State to run.  As Edison ran and pledged to be no tool of the machine, many of his fellow Democrats looked at one another and winked.  They soon regretted their choice of Edison as their nominee after he won the election.  Democrats in New Jersey had worried about promoting a new face instead of a machine regular, especially as the Republicans had nominated Wendell Willkie as their presidential nominee in 1940.  Edison was most certainly a new face and once elected, it became readily apparent that he meant precisely what he said.  Hague was utterly outraged when Governor Edison chose Frederic R. Colie to sit on the New Jersey State Supreme Court.  Not only was Colie a Republican, but he was also quite likely the most politically and personally obnoxious candidate Edison could have named, at least in the eyes of Frank Hague.  It had been Frederic Colie who had tried to keep the boss’s son, Frank Hague Jr., from sitting on the state Court of Errors and Appeals.  That amounted to a declaration of war on the Hudson County political machine, and their adherents in the state legislature fought a bitter battle with Governor Edison.  One New Jersey newspaper noted that Edison lost many of the battles he fought with the machine, but wondered if the governor had not ultimately won the war as Frank Hague was never quite the same after their tussle.  Edison demonstrated that even a Democratic governor need not bend to Boss Hague’s will.  A series of Republican governors followed Edison into office and helped to diminish, if not altogether dismantle, the Hague machine.  Edison quipped his running feud with Hague had been “a job of slum clearance.”

Like his father, Edison had originally been a Republican, but like many others of the time, he became a New Deal Democrat.  Edison helped to formulate the Federal Housing Administration under FDR after having served on the New Jersey State Recovery Board and the Regional Labor Board.  Named as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1936, Edison carried a much heavier workload than usual, as Claude Swanson was old and infirm and unable to carry out many of the responsibilities of his office.  President Roosevelt balked at the idea of moving Swanson out, as he said the Virginian was dependent upon his salary.  While working in the Navy Department, Edison objected to the policy of discarding old ships as junk, insisting they be reconditioned.  That enabled the United States government to provide Great Britain with ships when the British Empire was being quite hard pressed by Adolf Hitler’s Luftwaffe and intense bombing and shipping was highly endangered by Nazi submarine “wolfpacks.”

One of those who helped to nudge Edison into the governor’s race was Franklin Roosevelt, which impaired Frank Hague’s ability to object, although he had become accustomed to personally picking the Democratic nominee for statewide offices.  Swanson had died a couple of months before FDR appointed Edison officially to serve as Secretary of the Navy, but the shrewd occupant of the White House had decided to appoint two Republicans to his Cabinet as the wars in the Far East and Europe raged.

Charles Edison resigned as Secretary of the Navy in 1940 to kick off his campaign to become governor of New Jersey and received a public letter from President Roosevelt who praised him for having “greatly contributed to the present efficiency” of the Navy Department as well as Edison’s “splendid record” as secretary.  Possessing one of the most famous names in the United States of America, personally wealthy and with Franklin Roosevelt’s endorsement, Charles Edison would have been hard to derail and was a very formidable first-time candidate for elective office.

Even Frank Hague had to think twice about bucking Roosevelt, the most popular Democrat of them all.  Only reluctantly did Frank Hague support Edison in the general election and certainly regretted it quickly.  In office for a week, Edison managed to ruin Frank Hague’s vacation.  Hague was basking in the Florida sunshine when word reached him that Governor Edison had named Frederic Colie to the state Supreme Court.  Hague began bombarding the governor with long-distance telephone calls, pleading with him not to appoint Colie.  When Hague saw Edison would not change his mind, the Boss screamed into the phone, “Charlie, you’ve turned out to be just the kind of governor I thought you’d be, you… Benedict Arnold!  Do you know what I am going to do to you for this?  I am going to break you, Charlie, if it’s the last thing I do.”

Unimpressed by the threat, Governor Edison stated that when he appointed Colie, it was “a public proclamation that Hague is no longer free to carry on his attempts to exert control over the higher courts of New Jersey.”

Hague was left to sputter that he was not trying to control New Jersey’s judicial system, and the fight between Governor Edison and the Hague machine was joined.  Democrats in New Jersey were flustered by having to choose between the Hudson County and the governor, who wielded power over state jobs and patronage.  Personal and political loyalties conflicted during Edison’s three-year term as governor.

Governor Edison and Hague fought a pitched battle over the issue of taxation involving railroads.  Hague’s Hudson County and Jersey City were heavily reliant upon railroad taxation, and the governor proposed to forgive certain debts owed by the railroads in order to get them to pay $34 million (almost $740 million today) to the state.  The fight between the chief executive and the political boss was heated and a GOP-controlled legislature passed the measure after an all-night session.  Governor Edison publicly said, “The sooner Hague loses his power to act with such viciousness the better it will be for New Jersey.”

Charles Edison proved to be what Frank Hague hated the most: a reformer.  Throughout his administration, Governor Edison insisted upon making appointments he believed to be qualified without regard to political party.  The governor prodded the people of New Jersey to revise and update their state’s constitution, which had been written in 1844.  It took some years, but eventually the people of the Garden State voted to approve a new constitution in 1947.

Some believed the governor’s feud with Frank Hague had been unproductive as Hague was “a political boss whose time was running out any way.”  That was likely the minority opinion.  The Passaic Herald-News remembered Edison as “a good governor.”  “To say that New Jersey is a better-governed state today because Charles Edison served as its governor during the trying days of World War II is no exaggeration.”  The editorial acknowledged Edison’s administration had been “inspired by his innate honesty, decency and fierce independence” and it “ushered in a new era in New Jersey politics.”  “Subservience to a political boss was not in his makeup,” the editorial stated, noting Governor Edison “paved the way for the eventual demise of the Hague machine. . .”  The Herald-News believed Edison had “restored public confidence in the high office of governor of New Jersey,” quite a feat for any individual to accomplish.  The editorial stated Charles Edison “rates a high place in the history of our state and the gratitude of its citizens” for his integrity and for restoring the confidence of the Garden State in its chief executive.

Barred by law from seeking a second consecutive term, Charles Edison was content to resume the presidency of the Edison Company.  In 1950, Edison became chairman of the board.

Although he owned a home at the site of the Thomas Edison company, the former governor lived largely with his wife in an apartment at the Waldorf Towers whose residents included General Douglas MacArthur and family, as well as former president Herbert Hoover.  Hoover and Edison became friends in their later years, and the former governor became increasingly conservative.  Governor Edison’s conservatism was reflected in those candidates he chose to support, and having ignored party labels while in office, he was even less partisan as a private citizen.  Edison was one of the founders of the Conservative Party in New York State, which elected a United States senator in 1970.  The former governor was also one of the founders and a trustee of Americans for Constitutional Action, an organization that supported conservative candidates and promoted conservative causes.

By any measure, Charles Edison lived a productive life, and the Bridgewater Courier-News published an editorial upon the former governor’s passing in 1969 at age 78, assessing Edison’s life and works.  “Much of his accomplishment in business and government stands today among the monuments that all of us take so much for granted in a world literally made brighter by the works of Thomas Edison and his son Charles Edison, former governor and native son.”  While it is oftentimes difficult for a child to shine when obscured by the light of a famous parent, Charles Edison managed to continue his father’s innovations and business, but also to make a mark of his own.

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By Steve Williams

L.A. Headrick is back at home and doing what he loves to do. And that’s coaching at Central High School, where he started in 1999.

He resigned last November after his second season as the head coach at South-Doyle. It was his first head coaching job, but he’s young enough to have a role like that again in the future.

On a beautiful Wednesday last week under blue skies with low humidity, Headrick was finishing up practice at summer camp and going over some rules with the Bobcats. His stern talk was about going to bed early at night and being on time the next morning.

That’s kinda where the season had started at CHS. Headrick was serious about getting off on the right foot. That comes from coaching high school boys and turning them into young men for over a quarter of a century.

This reporter was watching and listening to the end of the practice from the sideline.

After the players left the field, I sat down with L.A. and we talked about the recent change in his coaching career. He is now a co-defensive coordinator at Central with Ryan Roach.

“When I resigned (at South-Doyle) it was heartfelt, it was tough,” said Headrick. “But at the end of the day, there are things that we go through in life and how you handle those things dictate the next step of whatever you’re planning to do. I just felt like God has put me in a situation and I just need to handle it the right way. I felt like I did that and I’m at Central now. Twenty plus years ago I got into coaching. It was the first place that I coached at and had an opportunity to actually come home and be back to a place where it has a lot of memories, a lot of special memories, a lot of relationships. A lot of those relationships are still here and it’s just a great opportunity for me.”

Headrick started coaching the first year out of Powell High School when he was 20 years old. And Joel Helton, one of the state’s top coaches, was the head coach at Central the entire time Headrick was first at CHS.

“I always had the desire to coach and get into coaching football and just had the opportunity to come and be a young coach and really mostly just to learn,” said L.A. “Learn how to deal with certain situations with kids and build relationships and things like that. It’s very instrumental in my career and how I deal with kids, how I do things. I was able to learn a lot and just be a student of the game as a coach. And that probably helped me more than anything that I’ve gone through in my coaching career.”

Being at Central, Headrick has gotten the opportunity to coach again with Kevin Lane, the Bobcats’ current head coach.

“I think he came in 2002,” recalled L.A.  “We got into coaching together, so it was one of those brotherhoods that we created and just grew as coaches together. Obviously, we went our separate ways and it’s a blessing to be able to come back to where it all started and be able to continue to build this program.

“The one thing about Central is there’s a lot of pride and a lot of tradition in Fountain City,” said Headrick. “I think it’s unmatched, honestly, because when Central football is at its best is when Central High School is at its best.”

He also is glad to be where his children are. His daughter, Olivia, will be a sophomore this coming school year and plays basketball; and his son, Wesley, will be a freshman and start his high school football career.

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steelym@knoxfocus.com

The Knoxville-Knox County Emergency Management District Board of Directors met Tuesday and voted to make several recommendations on the agency’s 2027 budget.

Knox 911 Director Brad Anders told the members the agency lost an extra $1 million when Governor Bill Lee vetoed legislation to help out emergency groups. That led to the group requesting its finance committee approve hiring a Nashville lobbyist firm to represent them in future state relations for $75,000 next year.

The board also voted to recommend a three-step pay increase of about 3.3% for employees, plus a performance bonus. Finance Director Kim White explained the cost-of-living pay increases. She will be retiring this year after 33 years of service, and the board voted to split the duties of that office into two roles: a finance director and a new administrative coordinator position.

Anders said that he may suggest creating a human resources director position later on to help with the 130 employees.

The board also voted to create a bridge retirement program for those employed for 30 years and who are at least 55 years old. The retiring employees would get help from the agency of about 33% with their medical insurance until they are eligible to draw Social Security.

“This is so exciting to already be into our fourth year of this festival,” said Kim Bumpas, President of Visit Knoxville. “The momentum continues from now twice being named by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the ‘50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee’ and reinforces the vision behind this standout event.”

For 2026, the festival will have four days of film programming, including the Elev8or Pitch on Thursday night. Friday will have an opening night film, as well as other programming, followed by an opening night VIP party. In addition to a full slate of shorts and feature films, the weekend will include workshops and panels. Sunday will wrap up the festival with more films, awards, and a closing night party. Full festival passes and VIP passes will go on sale in August.

“Four years ago, when we first began imagining a new kind of film festival for Knoxville, we hoped it would draw more attention to the filmmaking talent here in East Tennessee, while also spotlighting and supporting the best regional cinema being made throughout the country,” said Darren Hughes, Artistic Director and Co-Founder of the festival. “There was no guarantee it would work! So it’s been a real treat watching locally made films travel to other festivals and to see FILM FEST KNOX be recognized by press and industry as a new player in the world of American independent cinema. We’re eager to begin sharing our plans for the 2026 edition, including the second recipient of the James Agee prize, which honors lifetime contributions to regional cinema. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Carrying on a local tradition of team-based filmmaking competitions, the Elev8or Pitch Competition invites groups to complete an eight-minute proof-of-concept short, along with a one-minute pitch for a feature film. The top eight submissions (selected by an independent committee) then participate in a screening, live-pitch session, and Q&A with a jury of industry professionals who award three top prizes.

New for 2026, FILM FEST KNOX is partnering with Ten Acre Films to direct the Elev8or Pitch Development Lab. This partnership will further enhance one of FILM FEST KNOX’s goals to build a clear path for independent filmmakers and grow film production in Knox County.

“The Elev8or Pitch offers a valuable platform for local and regional filmmakers to engage with industry experts and advance their projects,” said Curt Willis, Senior Director of the Visit Knoxville Film Office. “Partnering with Ten Acre Films is an exciting step for FILM FEST KNOX that will continue to attract more filmmakers with goals of feature filmmaking–and Knox County is the perfect place for those potential projects.”

Since 2013, producers Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams, Co-Founders of Ten Acre Film and members of Producers United, have produced over twenty feature films, twice being nominated as producers for Film Independent Spirit Awards (Producers Award, 2019; John Cassavetes Award, 2013). Ten of their features have premiered at Sundance, including Boots Riley’s Independent Spirit Award-winning Sorry to Bother You. An additional six films have premiered at SXSW, including 6 Years (Netflix) and I Used to Go Here starring Gillian Jacobs and Jemaine Clement.  Other films have premiered at festivals including Berlinale, Tribeca, Cannes, and Toronto International Film Festival. Recent highlights include Bleecker Street’s What Happens Later directed by and starring Meg Ryan, Yen Tan’s All That We Love starring Margaret Cho and Jesse Tyler Ferguson (screened at FILM FEST KNOX in 2024), and The Senior, starring Michael Chiklis & Mary Stuart Masterson.

Duffy is an Associate Producer of Blueback (tiff 2022/Sundance 2023), Executive Producer of Buoyancy (Berlinale 2019) and The Sound of Silence (Sundance 2019), and Co- Executive Producer of Before You Know It (Sundance 2019). Duffy is an alumnus of the Rotterdam Producing Lab, Cannes Producers Network, Sundance Producing Summit, Catalyst Program and SFFILM’s Producers Fellowship, and a Stowe Story Labs mentor.

Williams is a Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow and a Sundance Institute Catalyst Fellow. He is also a past lecturer at the University of Tennessee and current lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to producing, he worked as a film programmer for various film festivals and was awarded the 2007 International Film Festival Summit Excellence Award.

“Kelly and I met working at a film festival—the perfect origin story for two career producers whose partnership has always been rooted in championing independent film and the filmmakers behind it,” said Jonathan Duffy, Co-Founder of Ten Acre Films.

“FILM FEST KNOX has grown at an incredible pace, and I’ve been fortunate to witness it up close as a juror and panelist,” said Kelly Williams, Co-Founder of Ten Acre Films. “Now, we’re thrilled for Ten Acre Films to partner with the festival and the Elev8or program.”

“The Elev8or Pitch Competition exists to connect filmmakers with world-class industry professionals and help them take the next step with their work,” said Paul Harrill, FILM FEST KNOX Co-Founder. This partnership with Ten Acre Films takes that to a whole new level. Kelly Williams and Jonathan Duffy have built an exceptional body of work over fifteen years, much of it with first-time directors. We couldn’t be more thrilled to have their experience and leadership.”

Registration for the Elev8or Pitch will open on Eventive on June 5, 2026. REGISTER HERE AT FILMFESTKNOX.COM. The registration fee is $80 per team, which includes one full festival pass for the weekend.

FILM FEST KNOX provides space for local filmmakers to share their craft and passion with a large audience, and the Elev8or Pitch takes this a few steps further:

• Filmmakers submit an 8-minute stand-alone short film as a proof-of-concept to establish a foundation for a full-length feature film’s potential production.
• In addition to their short film, each competitor submits a 60-second pitch to share their idea, as well as how and why they are ready to make it into a feature film.
• A jury of film industry professionals will evaluate all team submissions.
• All finishing teams will have their films screened in a block during FILM FEST KNOX.
• The top 8 Elev8or finalists will be asked to give a live pitch following their short film’s screening in front of a live audience and a panel of industry professionals, preparing the judges to imagine the feature potential. This will take place on Thursday, November 12.
• The top three teams chosen as the winners of the Elev8or Pitch will be awarded cash prizes and participate in FILM FEST KNOX’s Elev8or Development Lab. The Lab offers workshops and opportunities for the winners to receive feedback and network with established industry professionals.
• All finished projects submitted to the Elev8or Pitch will be eligible for additional awards.

The deadline for registration is July 16, and the Kickoff Party for the Elev8or Pitch will be that evening at 5PM at Scruffy City Hall. All teams are recommended to attend. Specific requirements for the Elev8or Pitch submissions will be revealed at the Kickoff Party.

More details on FILM FEST KNOX will continue to be provided in 2026 at FILMFESTKNOX.com.

Additionally, FILM FEST KNOX’s Free Screen Series continues throughout 2026, more details on dates and screenings are at FILMFEST.com/series/.

~ from Carson-Newman University

Carson-Newman University “delivers on equipping students” according to Tyson Schritter, COO of Texas-based organization, Colleges of Distinction.

This week Carson-Newman was named a “College of Distinction,” as well as a “Christian College of Distinction” for 2026-2027. The recognition signifies a school’s adherence to what Colleges of Distinction calls its “Four Distinctions:” Engaged Students, Great Teaching, Vibrant Community and Successful Outcomes. Rather than relying on endowment figures or selectivity rates, the organization conducts in-depth research and direct interviews with each institution, selecting only those whose campuses reflect a genuine, student-first philosophy.

“Today’s students are navigating a college landscape shaped by rising costs, rapid technological change, and real uncertainty about the future of work,” said Schritter, “What they need from higher education isn’t just a credential, but preparation for the world ahead. Carson-Newman delivers that through the kind of intentional, high-impact education that equips students for whatever comes next.”

The organization also recognized the University for its Business, Education and Nursing programs. In addition, Carson-Newman received special accolades for its Career Development initiatives for undergraduate students and for its support of international students.

“The schools that do career development well don’t wait for students to come to them,” said Schritter. “Carson-Newman meets students where they are early, consistently, and across every field of study.”

The COO points out that every student’s college journey is different and champions C-N approach to preparing the next generation of servant-leaders.

“No two students arrive on campus with the same goals, background, or definition of success,” he said. “The institutions we recognize understand that. Carson-Newman has built an environment where students are supported and challenged in ways that translate into real academic, professional, and personal outcomes.”