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The Elwood Call-Leader and The TiptonCounty Tribune Saturday, June 5, 2021 PAGE 5 LEGALNOTICE STATE OF INDIANA COUNTYOF MADISON SS: IN THE MADISON CIRCUIT COURT2021 TERM CAUSE NO. 48C03-2105-EU-000291 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: PEGGYJOYCE STEPHENS DECEASED NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION NOTICE is hereby given that Deborah Ann Wolfe, was, on June 2, 2021, appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of Peggy Joyce Stephens, deceased, who died on the 4th day of January, 2021. All persons who have claims against this estate, whether or not now due, must file the same in the office of the Clerk of this Court Within three (3) months from the date of the first publication of this notice, or Within nine (9) months after the death, whichever is earlier, or the claims will be forever barred. DATED at Anderson, Indiana, on this 2nd day of June, 2021. Olivia Pratt Clerk, Madison Circuit Courts Prepared by: Thomas M.

Beeman, No. 4291-45 Attorney for Petitioner 3737 South Scatterfield Road, Suite 200 Anderson, Indiana 46013 Telephone: 765-640-1330 Fax: 765-640-1332 PUBLISH: June 5, 12, 2021 8362E hspaxlp LEGALNOTICE Estate of Joanne Boston 48C06-2105-EU-000290 NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION IN THE MADISON COUNTY CIRCUITCOURT ESTATE NO. 48C06-2105-EU-000290 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOANNE BOSTON, DECEASED IN THE CIRCUITCOURTOF MADISON COUNTY, INDIANA Notice is hereby given that Kevin J. Boston was, on June 2, 2021 appointed personal representative of the estate of Joanne Boston, deceased, who died on November 26, 2020. All persons who have claims against this estate, whether or not now due, must file the same in the office of the Clerk of this Court Within three (3) months from the date of the first publication of this notice, or within nine (9) months after the death, whichever is earlier, or the claims will be forever barred.

Dated at Anderson, Indiana, on June 2, 2021. Olivia Pratt Clerk, Madison Circuit Court, Indiana Attorney for Estate Ardeth Wilson Wilson Law, LLC 932 Meridian Street Anderson, Indiana 46016-1748 PUBLISH: June 5, 12, 2021 8356E hspaxlp LEGALNOTICE NOTICE OF MEETING OF LAPEL BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS AMeeting of the Lapel Board of Zoning Appeals will be held on Monday, June 21,2021, at 6:00 p.m., in the Lapel Town Hall, 825 N. Main Street, Lapel, Indiana, 46051, for the purpose of an appeal on a Weed Ordinance violation. The public is invited to attend. Due to the COVID-19 emergency, the Governor has issued Executive Orders allowing governmental agencies to conduct meetings virtually during the course of the public health emergency.

Please check the Town of Lapel's website at www the Town of Lapel's Facebook page, or contact Town Hall at (765) 534-3157 for current information about the meeting and how to participate in the meeting virtually through Go To Meeting. Please be advised that if a virtual meeting format is allowed, this is in addition to an in-person meeting at the Town Hall. It is the policy of the Town of Lapel, that all public meetings and events comply with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and are accessible to people with disabilities. Individuals with disabilities, as defined under the ADA, who may need auxiliary aids, services, or special modifications to participate in a public meeting or event should contact the office of the Lapel Town Clerk, as soon as possible, but no less than forty-eight (48) hours before the scheduled meeting or event. Dated this 3rd day of June, 2021.

BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS Lapel, Indiana PUBLISH: June 5, 2021 8361E hspaxlp LEGALNOTICE STATE OF INDIANA COUNTYOF TIPTON SS: IN THE TIPTON COUNTY CIRCUITCOURT ESTATE NO. 80C01-2106-EU-000046 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HAROLD MAXWELL, DECEASED NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Notice is hereby given that on the 3rd day of June, 2021, Tim W. Lyons was appointed personal representative of the estate of Harold Maxwell, deceased, who died on the 24th of May, 2021. All persons who have claims against this estate, whether or not now due, must file the same in the office of the Clerk of this Court Within three (3) months from the date of the first publication of this notice, or within nine (9) months after the death, whichever is earlier, or the claims will be forever barred. Dated at Tipton, Indiana, this 3rd day of June, 2021.

Christy Crawford Clerk, Tipton Court, Indiana WILLIAM E. BECK II Attorney at Law 401 West Walnut P.O. Box 868 Kokomo, IN 46903-0868 Telephone: (765) 456-1318 PUBLISH: June 5, 12, 2021 8357T hspaxlp By SARAH NELSON The Indianapolis Star INDIANAPOLIS (AP) No one has seen McClerkin since she walked into a home in Kokomo four years ago. Frank Giza III was supposed to leave Bloomington for a music festival in Tennessee 12 years ago. His friends said he never arrived to the set.

Surveillance footage holds the last trace of Kevin Nguyen. The Fort Wayne man disappeared in 2018 somewhere between a bar and an parking lot. June 3 marked a decade since Lauren Spierer vanished in Bloomington, becoming perhaps the most well-known missing person case. The Indiana University student disappeared after turning a street corner heading back to her apartment. National media and true crime bloggers have dissected every angle in case.

She, Giza, McClerkin and Nguyen are listed among the roughly 1,180 people declared missing in Indiana, according to a running bulletin kept by Indiana State Police. FRANK GIZAIII Frank Giza should have spent the spring of 2009 couch-surfing and attending music festivals across the country. Those plans ended in Indiana. The 25-year-old hitchhiked from Baltimore to Bloomington along I-70, guitar in hand, to stay with a friend before jetting off to another circuit of concerts in Tennessee and West Virginia. He called his mother, Suzanne Giza, on his birthday: June 2.

sounded like my old she told IndyStar. high, Suzanne Giza want the conversation to end, despite being in the supermarket. She recalled the times he dialed her in the past too drunk to understand. She felt afraid that if they stopped talking, she would never talk to her son as her again. Weeks passed without another word from Frank Giza.

His friends waiting in Tennessee and West Virginia said he never showed up to either concert. Suzanne Giza instinctively knew something was wrong with her son. He hitchhiked to California at the age of 18 and made a point to check in with her, even if it meant calling from a pay phone. She contacted Bloomington police. What she gathered then remains the same today: Frank Giza got into a fight with his friend and left Bloomington.

Suzanne Giza believes someone knows what happened to her son. She issued flyers with his picture at truck stops in 2011, two years after her disappearance. Visiting Indiana immediately after he went missing was financially, and emotionally, impossible. Tips came through here and there, she said. The last one came in 2019 from a man who claimed to have seen Frank Giza at a truck stop in western Maryland.

Surveillance footage in the area ultimately proved too grainy to make out a solid match. At that point, it had been 10 years since her son disappeared. Suzanne Giza accepts what she calls her likely my mind, I feel that he is on the side of the road, in the woods, under leaves. what I she said. may not know until cry sometimes, but I have to get on with she said.

I dwell on it. dwelled on it for be OK, were the last words McClerkin texted to her grandmother before she disappeared visiting a Kokomo house in 2016. The 18-year-old wanted to get clean from drugs, and assured Gerry McClerkin that be fine meeting up with a boy and partying for one last time at the home in the 1000 block of South Washington Street. It would be her last, Gerry McClerkin said. Every day for two years, Gerry McClerkin and father, James McClerkin, led search parties to find her, to no avail.

They grabbed their shovels and dug any time a tip flowed in. They still do four years later. get phone calls randomly, and I leave, I go get the James McClerkin said. we dig. We walk through rivers; we walk through Daily searches became weekly excursions.

Their family may not know where McClerkin is, James McClerkin said, but they know where she The McClerkins feel the last ones taking up the torch in case, as though police and the Kokomo community have lost interest. James McClerkin pooled the $75,000 he saved in his 401(k) as a reward fund. Gerry McClerkin continues to organize searches on Facebook. She reminds the small town about her granddaughter by waving signs across from the Kokomo Police Department that read McClerkin is still missing from Kokomo, Indiana since Oct. 11, stay until her last breath, Gerry McClerkin said, since no one else will.

plunged into sewers to find McClerkin with the Facebook posts to prove it. walked miles into woods from Peru to Jerome. She and Jerry McClerkin have cracked holes in ice over lakes to see if body bobs up. Three private investigators, bloodhounds to sniff out bodies and an expert team of divers have turned up no answers. have beat myself up umpteen dozen times to find this Gerry McClerkin said.

have begged; I have pleaded with people (to stand and hold She sees the flood of news coverage surrounding the Delphi murders and wonders how she find a single person to join her searches. She help but think because her granddaughter is a mixed-race girl who got caught up in the wrong crowd. Gerry and James McClerkin led another search Saturday, May 22 at a park on East Carter Street. They find anything. KEVIN NGUYEN Two blocks stand between The Brass Rail bar and Kevin last-known location in 2018.

The 25-year-old spent a night of drinking at the Fort Wayne watering hole on Dec. 8 until bouncers kicked him out before 1 a.m. He bought a slice from Big Apple Pizza food truck, according to his receipt, and texted his sister to pick him up. His mother arrived instead to bring him home, but Nguyen there. He been seen or heard from since he texted his sister for a ride.

family filed a missing person report with Fort Wayne police two days after he patronized the bar. the type that just come grandmother, Dee Campbell, told The Indianapolis Star. After encouragement from father, Campbell texted the 25-year-old after he disappeared to ask what he wanted for Christmas in hopes of spurring a response. She hear back. Pieces that traced the final parts of night came in about a week after he disappeared.

Surveillance footage later obtained from an around the corner from Brass Rail captured him in the fast food parking lot twice that night once with his hoodie over his head and the next without his glasses and stumbling slightly at 2:42 a.m. AFort Wayne resident invested in the case found broken glasses in the back of Brass Rail shortly after he went missing. Aside from hearsay, the surveillance tapes, broken glasses and her receipts for his bar tab and pizza, Campbell said she know what happened to Nguyen that night. But someone does, she said. just vanish.

This is not Campbell stressed. Campbell said she walked the 0.1-mile route her grandson took that night to a for what it looks like in the dark. talked with employees at a gas station south of the bar and to see if they knew Nguyen. feel like doing the legwork for this she said. She sticks posters up around Fort Wayne each December in hopes of stirring any leads.

His case is one of two Indiana missing person cases listed by the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program. we find Kevin, then we can find an answer at least if there was abuse that made its way to the she said. reached the point finally that when I say those words, I cry. Because if my grandson was still with us, unless incapacitated with drugs, or kept hostage, Kevin would come Families await word on fates of 3 people, missing for years Classifieds pay.