Long-time Eustace resident Hilda Louise Noble Foster, 94, passed away peacefully Jan. 30, 2023 at South Place Nursing Center in Athens. 
Visitation was held Feb. 7, 2023 and Internment followed at Cottonwood Cemetery. Arrangements were by Eubank Funeral Home. Pallbearers were her six grandsons and honorary pallbearers were her two grandsons-in-law. 
She was born Jan. 7, 1929, in Pauline, a community west of Eustace to Thomas Rufus and Ruby Lee Meredith Noble. She was their fourth child and the first of three daughters. 

Fairy Jo “Jodie” (Martin) Loftis passed away peacefully Jan. 30, 2023 at Cedar Lake Nursing Home in Malakoff where she had spent the last three years suffering from Alzheimer's. 
Jodie was born Jan. 24, 1942, in Terrell, to W.C. Martin and Fairy Eldis Martin, both of whom preceded her in death along with her first husband Frank Baker Jones Jr and her husband Rev. Mickey Maurice Loftis, brothers Royce Dean Martin, Steve Martin and Randall Martin and sisters Betty Martin and Peggy Marie Black.

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Mabank Volleyball Head Coach Stacy Shelton with the Lady Panthers. Shelton announces her retirement from coaching and education after 35 years, including the last 23 years at Mabank High School.

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