Friends and family paid their respects to Artreal Jones, a guard on the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 teams that lost in the championship games to Dallas' Madison High School. Madison forfeited its titles earlier this week amid a recruiting controversy. Now Yates is listed as the champions, but Jones didn't live to see it.
"He's playing basketball with God," friend Curry Gaut told Eyewitness News.
Jones collapsed during a pickup basketball game August 7 and died. His mother tells us he had a heart condition diagnosed in 2011.
Friends attended a wake Friday night.
Jones, who planned to attend Texas Southern University this fall, will be laid to rest Saturday in Navasota.