
    In the MATTER OF: Mary Ellen Brannon THOMPSON
    No. 51P17
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    March 16, 2017
    Frederick K. Sharpless, Attorney at Law, Greensboro, Molly A. Whitlatch, Attorney at Law, Pamela S. Duffy, Attorney at Law, Burlington, for Thompson, Bryan C.
    Reginald D. Alston, Attorney at Law, Winston-Salem, for Thompson, Mary Ellen Brannon (Estate of).
    Gloria L. Woods, Assistant County Attorney, for Forsyth County DSS.
    John R. Combs, Attorney at Law, Winston-Salem, for GAL.
    William M. Speaks, Jr., Attorney at Law, Winston-Salem.
    ORDER
   Upon consideration of the petition filed by Appellant on the 7th of February 2017 in this matter for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals:

"Denied by order of the Court in conference, this the 16th of March 2017."  