Clearly, a Form 1040 must be filed to report all income that was received and all deductible expenses that were paid prior to her death in November.
Correspondingly, a Form 1041 would have to be filed if income was received in her name or in the name of her estate totalling $600 or more. All such income and expenses received after her death, that is income in her name and expenses paid out of her assets are reported on the Form 1041. If that will be necessary and if you will have questions about that, write back.
The difficult part is that you will need to apportion any income that was reported on Forms 1099 such as interest or dividends between those two periods.
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