IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, PEORIA COUNTY, ILLINOIS ESTATE OF: Homer Copenhaver ) DECEASED. ) Case No. 2025-PR-313 NOTICE OF CLAIM DATE NOTICE IS GIVEN OF the death of HOMER COPENHAVER, and that Letters of Office were issued October 27, 2025, to Trudy Heitzman, 9011 W. Maple Ridge Road, Mapleton, Illinois 61547, whose attorney is W. EDGAR WEER of SMITH & WEER, P.C., 410 Elizabeth Street, Pekin, Illinois, 61554. Claims may be filed on or before the 5th day of May, 2026, or six months from the date of the first publication of this Notice, whichever is later, and any claim not filed within that period is barred as to the estate which is inventoried within that period. Claims against said estate may be filed on or before said date in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Peoria County Courthouse, Peoria, Illinois, or with the representative, or both. Within 10 days after a claimant files its claim with the Court, the claimant must mail or deliver a copy of the claim to the representative and to its attorney of record and file with the Court proof of mailing or delivery of said copies. Trudy Heitzman, Executor Dated this 3rd day of November, 2025. BY: /s/ W. Edgar Weer___________ W. EDGAR WEER 410 Elizabeth Street Pekin, Illinois 61554 Ph: (309) 347-4300 November 5, 12, 19 2025 LILS0401204