Monongalia County Commission accepts two executrix resignations, asks state for final accounting in one case

The Monongalia County Commission on April 16 accepted petitions from two women to resign as executrixes of separate estates and asked the state office to request a final accounting in one estate within 30 days.

The commission voted unanimously to accept the resignation of Marcela Hovatter as executrix of the estate of Dolores May Hovatter and to ask the state to notify Hovatter and request a final accounting, with the commission setting a 30‑day time frame for that accounting. Commissioners also unanimously accepted the resignation of Rachel Feddy Anderson as executrix of the estate of Eunice Mollard.

The county administrator said the estate of Dolores May Hovatter appeared to contain only partial interests in real estate and no cash assets; the last accounting filed showed zeros except for the partial real property entries. Regarding the Mollard estate, the administrator said the primary assets were a home and an additional parcel, one heir is living in the home with the agreement of the other heirs, and two family members have offered to step in if Anderson resigns to better achieve consensus among heirs about how to proceed.

Commissioners voted to accept both resignations by voice vote; each motion carried unanimously. The record does not show individual roll‑call votes. The commission directed county staff to ask the state to request a final accounting from Marcela Hovatter and set a 30‑day timeframe for that filing.

The actions were taken as part of the consent/fiduciary portion of the agenda and do not, by themselves, change ownership of estate property or affect any pending probate proceedings before the state court or probate office. Any formal appointments of successor administrators or further probate actions would be handled through the state probate process.