STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA WAKE COUNTY GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 25CV014352-910 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Plaintiff, v. MICHAEL LEE COATS, ET UX, ET AL, Defendants. NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO: Unknown Heirs of Cathy Mundy (a/k/a Cathy Ann Coats Mundy) Unknown Heirs of Timothy Coats (a/k/a Joseph Timothy Coats) Take notice that pleadings seeking relief against you have been filed in the above-entitled civil action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows the condemnation and appropriation, for highway purposes, of a certain interests or estates in that certain parcel of land lying and being in those certain lands lying and being in the St. Mary's Township, Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being that land described in a deed dated January 2, 1964 to Joseph J. Coats and wife, Elaine E. Coats, and recorded January 3, 1964 in Book 1579, Page 482, Wake County Registry. The property description contained in said deed is hereby incorporated by reference. Also, being that land identified as Tax PIN No. 1730-74-2226 (REID No. 0013635) containing approximately 0.520 acre and described as "LO3 W H GODWIN LD" and having an address of 2137 US Highway 70 East, Garner, NC, as is shown in the Wake County Tax Office. You are hereby required to make defense to such pleadings not later than the 20th day of November 2026, and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the Court for the relief sought. This 10th day of October 2025. JEFF JACKSON Attorney General LISA B. FINKELSTEIN Assistant Attorney General North Carolina Department of Justice Transportation Division 1505 Mail Service Center Raleigh, N.C. 27699-1505 Phone: 919-707-4480 IPL0278630 Oct 10,17,24 2025