The Monongalia County Commission voted Dec. 10 to accept a petition to remove the administratrix of the estates of Rosalie and Ernestine Miller after a family member told the panel the estate process had stalled.

Serena Webb, who identified herself as the petitioner and gave her address, told commissioners she filed to remove the administratrix because ‘‘we can't move forward with his estate until my mom's estate is completed because she had no will,’’ and that she wanted ‘‘to get everything moved along so my daughter can get her due inheritance so we can just be done with it.’’

County staff told the commission the required appraisement for one estate was filed in July but that the clerk's office had sent a notice asking the administratrix to increase her bond (due July 1) and that the administratrix had not responded; a second notice was sent Oct. 7 and the office had not received a reply. The clerk's account of those notices was presented to commissioners as the reason the estate work had not progressed.

After brief remarks from commissioners noting that one estate could not be closed until the other was resolved, a commissioner moved to accept the petition to remove the administratrix, a second was made, and the commission approved the motion by voice vote. The chair recorded the vote by voice and all present said "Aye."

Commissioners thanked Webb for coming forward, and staff will follow the court/probate process steps after the petition was accepted.

What happens next: the commission's acceptance of the petition removes the matter from only administrative status and directs the probate process to proceed; the transcript records no further details about the next court actions or a new administratrix appointment.