NOTICE TO CREDITORS   Having qualified as Executor Before the Clerk of Superior Court in the Estate of Timothy Wesley Haywood, late of New Hanover County, North Carolina, Court File 26E000449-640 this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before July 24, 2026, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to said estate please make immediate payment to the undersigned.   THIS the 20th day of April 2026.   Jinks K Whittington Executor of the Estate   LAW OFFICE OF NED M. BARNES 1009 N Lake Park Blvd Ste C2 Carolina Beach, North Carolina 28428  12262209 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/2026