Legals for Wednesday, July 10, 2024

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE

To be sold for cash at Trustee’s Sale on the 19th day of September 2024, at 1:30 o’clock p.m., at the front door of the Phillips County Courthouse, Malta, Montana, is the following property:

Lot 11 and the East 10 feet of Lot 10 in Block 4 of Trafton’s Third Addition to

Malta, Phillips County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

Reference Deed: Book 63 of Deeds, Pages 179-180.

Karen L. Hunter, as Grantor, conveyed the above-described property to Mark E. Noennig, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Streeter Brothers Mortgage Corp., as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture, dated May 31, 2000, and recorded June 2, 2000, in Book 78 of Mortgages, Pages 667- 677, Instrument No. 322724, records of the Clerk and Recorder of Phillips County, Montana. The beneficial interest in the Trust Indenture is currently held by the Montana Board of Housing as a result of the most recent Assignment, recorded June 2, 2000, in Book 8 of Assignments of Mortgages, page 562, Instrument No. 322725, records of the Clerk and Recorder of Phillips County, Montana. The Trustee in the Trust Indenture was replaced by a Successor Trustee, namely, Jeff A. Turner, the undersigned.

The default in the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default this foreclosure is made, is the failure by the Grantor, or other person owing an obligation, or by their successors-in-interest, to pay the monthly installments of $387.27 due thereunder on the 1st day of the months of January 1, 2022, through May 1, 2024, which is applied to principal and interest and to an escrow account if established for other obligations under the Trust Indenture, late charges which are 4.00% of all payments more than 15 days in arrears, and late charges and escrow shortages currently $5,152.10, attorney’s fees and foreclosure costs, currently $571.03, advances for property protection, currently none, and credit for unapplied, currently none, for a current total default of $16,953.96; together with accruing late charges, advances, and expenses of foreclosure, including attorney’s fees and costs.

There is presently owed on the obligation secured by the Trust Indenture the principal sum of $7,103.56, plus interest thereon at the rate of 6.0000% per annum from the 1st day of December 2021, until paid, or $1.1600 per day, currently a total of $1,031.07, late charges, advances for property protection, and escrow shortages, currently, $9,486.91, attorney’s fees and costs, currently $571.03, for a current total indebtedness of $18,192.57. Other expenses to be charged against the sale proceeds include accruing late charges, escrow shortages, if any, attorney’s fees and costs, and expenses of foreclosure and sale.

The Beneficiary has elected to sell the above-described property to satisfy the aforementioned obligation and has instructed the undersigned Trustee to do so. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be by a Trustee’s Deed, made “as is,” without representations or warranties, express or implied, including warranties of title, possession or encumbrances. The purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The sale may be postponed up to 15 days for any reason by public proclamation at the scheduled sale. If there is a stay by bankruptcy or court order, the sale may be postponed up to 30 days at a time by public proclamation, for a total of no more than 120 days. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor, or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, may pay to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the Trust Indenture and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT; ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

DATED this 2nd day of May 2024.

/s/ Jeff A. Turner

JEFF A. TURNER, Successor Trustee

P.O. Box 2502

208 North Broadway, Suite 324

Billings, Montana 59103-2502

STATE OF MONTANA )

: ss.

County of Yellowstone )

On this 2nd day of May 2024, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared JEFF A. TURNER, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same in his capacity as Successor Trustee.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal the day and year first above written.

/s/ Amy J. Budge

(Notarial Seal) Notary Public for the State of Montana

Residing at Laurel, Montana

My Commission Expires April 08, 2027

(Published by Phillips County News

(7/03, 7/10, 7/17/2024)

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DAN O’BRIEN

O’Brien & Pekovitch, PLLP

113 South 2nd Street West

P.O. Box 1280

Malta, Montana 59538

Phone: (406) 654-2541

Attorneys for Personal Representatives

MONTANA SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF PHILLIPS

In the Matter of the Estate ) Probate No. DP-2024-14

Of )

CLARICE STAHL , )

) NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Deceased. )

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Personal Representatives of the above named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed, return receipt requested, to: Wayne Stahl and Susan Olsen, Co-Personal Representative, c/o O’Brien & Pekovitch, PLLP, P.O. Box 1280, 113 South 2nd Street West, Malta, Montana 59538, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 27th day of June 2024.

____ /s/Susan Olsen

Susan Olsen,

Personal Representative

____ /s/Wayne Stahl

Wayne Stahl,

Personal Representative

(Published by Phillips County News 7/10, 7/17, 7/24/2024)

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The Malta Irrigation District will be shutting down canals and laterals tentatively until July 15, 2024. Please contact your ditch rider if you have additional questions.

Any other questions, please call Russell at (406) 654-1440.

(Published by Phillips County News

(7/03, 7/10/2024)

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