SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

PROBATE DIVISION

2025 ADM 001290

Estate of

Fannie Mae Shorter

Deceased

Notice of Standard

Probate

(For estates of decedents dying on or after

July 1, 1995)

Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Lewis A. Shorter for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representatives. Unless a responsive pleading in the form of a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth. Admit to probate the will dated July 15, 2005 exhibited with the petition upon proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution by affidavit of the witnesses or otherwise, order any interested person to show cause why the provisions of the lost or destroyed will dated July 15, 2005 should not be limited to probate as expressed in the petition.

Date of first

publication:

December 4, 2025

Name of newspapers

Washington Times

Washington Law Reporter

/s/Lewis A. Sorter

Petitioner/Attorney

4063 Curled Dock Lane

Odenton MD 21113

202-669-720

/s/ Nicole Stevens

REGISTER OF WILLS

Clerk of the Probate

Division

December 4, 11 & 18, 2025

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