SUMMONS TO UNKNOWN HEIRS - ROGER DALE ASHER

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF HANCOCK COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROGER DALE ASHER (DECEASED) CAUSE NO. 23CH1:22-cv-592 JS KAREN SUE ASHER, PLAINTIFF VERSUS UNKNOWN HEIRS-AT-LAW OF ROGER DALE ASHER (DECEASED), DEFENDANTS SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI TO:THE UNKNOWN HEIRS-AT-LAW OF ROGER DALE ASHER a/k/a DALE ASHER (DECEASED), if they be living and not to be found therein after diligent search and inquiry and whose places of residence, post office and street and house addresses are unknown after diligent street search and inquiry to ascertain the same; and if dead, their unknown devisees, executors, administrators or legal representatives are not to be found after diligent search and inquiry and whose places of residence, post office and street and house addresses are unknown after diligent street search and inquiry to ascertain the same You have been made Defendants in the lawsuit filed in the Court by Plaintiff, KAREN SUE ASHER, in her Petition for Determination of Heirship seeking to have the Court establish the heirs-at-law of ROGER DALE ASHER a/k/a DALE ASHER (DECEASED) and seeking to adjudicate THAT the sole and only heirs-at-law of ROGER DALE ASHER a/k/a DALE ASHER are his wife, KAREN SUE ASHER, and his children, VICTORIA LYNN MELTON, MELANIE KAY KORMONDY and STACIE LEE CARR. IF TO BE FOUND IN THIS COUNTY, to be and appear before the Honorable Jennifer Schloegel of the Chancery Court of Hancock County, Mississippi, to be held at the Harrison County Chancery Courthouse, First Judicial District on the 6th day of March, 2023, at 9:30 a.m. in Gulfport, Mississippi, next, then and there to show cause, if any they can, why KAREN SUE ASHER, VICTORIA LYNN MELTON, MELANIE KAY KORMONDY and STACIE LEE CARR should not be declared to be the sole heirs-at-law of ROGER DALE ASHER a/k/a DALE ASHER (DECEASED), according to law. YOU ARE SUMMONED TO APPEAR and defend against the Petition filed against you in this action on the date and time as set forth herein above before the Honorable Jennifer Schloegel in the Chancery Court of Hancock County, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; and in case of your failure to appear and defend, a judgment will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition. You are not required to file an answer or other pleading but you may do so if you desire. ISSUED under my hand and seal of said Court, this 19th day of January, 2023. TIMOTHY A. KELLAR, CHANCERY CLERK By: Bridgette Ladner, D.C. Publish: January 25, February 1 and 8, 2023