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Both Madisonville basketball teams returned to the court Tuesday following brief hiatuses and will soon open their district schedules. The men’s team returned with a road matchup at Wilmer-Hutchins while the women’s squad traveled to Brookshire Royal. CAMPBELL ATKINS

The Madisonville soccer team opened their season with a 10-1 loss in Huntsville Monday and will return to MHS to host their annual home tournament Thursday through Saturday. The matchups on Thursday and Friday will run from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. Daily entry bands will be sold for $5 at the home ticket gate and will be good for all games on the day purchased. A tournament band good for all games for all three days may be purchased for $10 if you plan to attend all three days of the tourney. No passes or employee IDs will be accepted for entry into the tournament. All fans must enter the home ticket booth. Madisonville’s pool matchups on Thursday will take place against Rockdale (9 a.m.) and Palestine Westwood (4:30 p.m.) while their Friday pool matchups include Bryan (11:30 a.m.) and Hempstead (4:30 p.m.). The results of the Thursday and Friday matchups will determine bracket play on Saturday.

Patricia Sue Wren Wells, age 88, of Centerville, Texas, passed away peacefully in her home on Friday, December 31, 2021, surrounded by her beloved husband and family. Pat was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, and friend to many. She was born in Prescott, Arkansas on August 12, 1933, to Grace and Floyd Wren, the youngest of six children.

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven. —Ecclesiastes 3:1 Joe Wayne kept this note in his billfold always.

Funeral services for Tony Dean will be held 1 P.M., Friday, January 7, 2022, at Madisonville Funeral Home, Madisonville, Texas. Terry Dean and Bro. Bobby Brown will officiate the service. Interment will follow at Willowhole Cemetery, North Zulch, Texas. A visitation will be held from 5 P.M. to 7 P.M., Thursday, January 6, 2022, at the funeral home.

Fred Ray Martin, 79 years old, a previous resident of Madisonville and Nacogdoches, TX, passed away on Friday, December 31, 2021, in Lufkin, TX. A private graveside service for immediate family will be held at Willowhole Cemetery in North Zulch, TX.