Legal Advertisements - Week of January 29, 2026
PUBLICATION NOTICE
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The Trial Court
Probate and Family Court
Plymouth Division
Docket No. PL25P2841EA
Estate of: David Ralph Whiterell
Also Known As: D. Ralph Whiterell
Date of Death: December 04, 2025
To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of
Petitioner Susan A. Soares of South Dartmouth MA
a Will has been admitted to informal probate.
Susan A. Soares of South Dartmouth MA
has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.
The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.
INFORMAL PROBATE
PUBLICATION NOTICE
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The Trial Court
Probate and Family Court
Plymouth Division
Docket No. PL26P0011EA
Estate of: Gary Allen McLaughlin
Date of Death: September 27, 2025
To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of
Petitioner Colleen S. Raithel of North Port FL
Colleen S. Raithel of North Port FL
has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.
The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.
NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE’S
SALE OF REAL ESTATE
Premises: 1024 Walnut Plain Road, Rochester, MA 02770 By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Frank E. White to Generation Mortgage Company, dated February 23, 2009, and recorded with the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds in Book 36930, Page 51, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder by assignment, by an assignment of mortgage from Generation Mortgage Company to Nationstar Mortgage LLC, dated December 1, 2013, and recorded with said Registry in Book 44017, Page 280, and by an assignment of mortgage from Nationstar Mortgage LLC to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, dated February 7, 2018, and recorded with said Registry in Book 49484, Page 48, and by an assignment of mortgage from Nationstar Mortgage LLC to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, dated February 14, 2018, and recorded with said Registry in Book 49504, Page 72, and by an assignment of mortgage from Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Champion Mortgage Company, dated December 7, 2018, and recorded with said Registry in Book 50641, Page 19, and by an assignment of mortgage from Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Champion Mortgage Company to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee of Reliant Trust, Series HPP, dated November 21, 2023, and recorded with said Registry in Book 58480, Page 189, and by an assignment of mortgage from Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee of Reliant Trust, Series HPP to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Owner Trustee of the Residential Credit Opportunities Trust X-A, dated October 16, 2024, and recorded with said Registry in Book 59507, Page 160, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold by Public Auction at 12 o’clock P.M on the 17th day of February 2026 at the mortgaged premises located at 1024 Walnut Plain Road, Rochester, MA 02770, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: The land described herein is situated in the State of Massachusetts, County of Plymouth, City of Rochester, and is described as follows: A certain lot of land located on the Easterly side of Walnut Plain Road in Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, and being shown as Lot #2 on a plan entitled “Plan of land in Rochester, Mass. For Anthony Nunes, Brant S. Haworth Associates, P.O. Box 64 Taunton, Mass. December 16, 1978, 1” = 40’, to be recorded, and more particularly bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a Plymouth County Bound in the Easterly Sideline of said Walnut Plain Road, said bound being a distance of 143.00 feet northwesterly from the southwesterly corner of the herein conveyed premises; Thence northwesterly in a curve to the left having a radius of 1,325.02 feet, and arc of 101.70 feet along said easterly sideline of Walnut Plain Road to a point; Thence North 75 58’ 32” East, a distance of 7.04 feet to a stake set at the end of a stone wall; Thence continuing in the same course a distance of 383.97 feet in line of said stone wall, along land now or formerly of Moses and Ruth Karp to a drill hole set in a corner of stone walls; Thence South 16 30’ 41” East a distance of 233.00 feet in line of a stone wall along land now or formerly of Joseph and Minnie Silva to a point for a corner; Thence South 74 20’ 17” West a distance of 379.02 feet along lot AI as shown on said plan to a point in said Easterly sideline of Walnut Plan Road; Thence North 18 19’ 50” West a distance of 143.00 feet along said Easterly sideline of Walnut Plain Road to the bound first mentioned. Premises to be sold and conveyed subject to and with the benefit of all rights, rights of way, restrictions, easements, covenants, liens or claims in the nature of liens, improvements, public assessments, any and all unpaid taxes, tax titles, tax liens, water and sewer liens and any other municipal assessments or liens or existing encumbrances of record which are in force and are applicable, having priority over said mortgage, whether or not reference to such restrictions, easements, improvements, liens or encumbrances is made in the deed. TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) by certified or bank check will be required to be paid by the purchaser at the time and place of sale. High bidder to sign written memorandum of sale upon acceptance of the high bid. The balance of the purchase price is to be paid by certified or bank check at Friedman Vartolo LLP, 1325 Franklin Avenue, Suite 160, Garden City, New York 11530 within thirty (30) days from the date of the sale. Deed will be provided to purchaser for recording upon receipt in full of the purchase price. In the event of an error in this publication, the description of the premises contained in said mortgage shall control. Other terms, if any, to be announced at the sale. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Owner Trustee of the Residential Credit Opportunities Trust X-A Present holder of said mortgage By its Attorneys, Friedman Vartolo LLP 1325 Franklin Ave, Suite 160 Garden City, NY 11530
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
PLYMOUTH, SS
DOCKET NO. PL25E0046PP
PROBATE COURT
To Antone Lopes and John Lopes both of Fairhaven, in the County of Bristol, and to all persons interested in the Estates of Joseph R. Nunes, Mary E. Raphael, Frank R. Nunes, Domingo Nunes, Marion Nunes and James A. Nunes. and to all other persons interested.
A petition has been presented to said Court by Robert J. Souza of Mattapoisett in the County of Plymouth, representing that he holds as tenant in common an undivided part or share of certain land lying in Mattapoisett in said County of Plymouth and briefly described as follows: Three certain lots of woodlands in Mattapoisett located between the King Philip Spring Road, so called, and the road now leading to the Fin Fur and Feather Club, being lots numbers 2, 3, and 4 in the survey for the division of Harvey Dexter land so called, making one continuous parcel, containing eleven (11) acres more or less and the Courses herein given being from deeds of about 1861:
Beginning at the southeast corner thereof at the northeast corner of lot #5 now or formerly owned by William H. Dexter at a stone post; thence in line of land now or formerly of J. Leonard Randall
North·12 1/3° West -- fifty-six (56) rods thirteen (13) feet to a large white oak tree at the northwest corner of said Randall land and northeast corner of lot #2 and in line of land of a former grantor of this land; thence in line thereof
West 3° North -- twenty-nine (29) rods fourteen (14) feet to a stone post or a stake and stones in line of land now or formerly owned or occupied by the Fin, Fur & Feather Club; thence in line thereof
South 1° West -- fifteen (15) rods seven (7) feet to a stake and stones; thence in line of the stone wall about west seven (7) rods to an angle in the wall; thence
South 15 ½°East-- in line of the stone wall eighteen (18) rods more or less to an angle in the wall; thence a short distance southerly and easterly in line of the stone wall to an angle in the wall; thence
South 8 ½°East-- in line of the stone wall twenty-nine (29) rods to an angle in the wall at the northwest corner of said lot #5, now or formerly of William H. Dexter; thence in line of that last-named land
East 12 1/3° North – thirty-three (33) rods four (4) feet to the place of beginning.
setting forth that he desires that all of said land may be sold at private sale for not less than $25,000.00 dollars and praying that the partition may be made of all the land aforesaid according to law, and that a commissioner be appointed to make such partition and be ordered to make sale and conveyance of all, or any part of said land which the Court finds cannot be advantageously divided at private sale and be ordered to
distribute the net proceeds thereof.
If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written appearance in said Court at Plymouth before ten o’clock in the forenoon on the seventeenth day of February 2026 the return day of this citation.
Witness, Patrick W. Stanton,
First Justice of said court, this second day of January 2026
Matthew J. McDonough Registrar
INFORMAL PROBATE
PUBLICATION NOTICE
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The Trial Court
Probate and Family Court
Plymouth Division
Docket No. PL25P2908EA
Estate of: Jean LaPointe
Date of Death: Aug 21, 2025
To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of
Petitioner Brian N. LaPointe of Rochester MA
a Will has been admitted to informal probate.
Brian N. LaPointe of Rochester MA
has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.
The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.
