NOTICE TO CREDITORS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Buncombe COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 25E002038-100 Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of Josephine Hamlin Stead, aka Josephine Gay Hamlin Stead, deceased, late of Buncombe County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the Estate of said Josephine Hamlin Stead, aka Josephine Gay Hamlin Stead to present them to the undersigned on or before the 19th day of March, 2026 (this date being 3 months from the first publication date of this notice) or same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate please make immediate payment. This the 18th day of December, 2025. Katherine Tyler Watkins, Executor, in care of Susan Taylor Rash, Esq., Van Winkle, Buck, Wall, Starnes and Davis, P.A., Attorney-at-law, 11 North Market Street, Asheville, NC 28801 Executor of the Estate of Josephine Hamlin Stead December 18,25,January 1,8 2026 LGSC0422602