Age 58, Lawton - Funeral services will be 12:30 PM Monday at the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Brother James D. Wagner, Sr., Visitation Minister at Little Creek Baptist Church in Sheridan, Arkansas officiating. Sgt Sessoms died Thursday. Burial with full military honors will be in Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin. He was born July 16, 1949 in Salemburg, North Carolina to Murdie and Bertie (Wooten) Sessoms. He married Shelia Lane on June 8, 1971 in Lawton. Sgt. Sessoms retired from the U.S. Army after more than twenty years of service on April 30, 1989. He received many medals and badges including the Combat Infantryman Badge, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, Army Achievement Medal with two Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters, Meritorious Service Medal with one Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster and the Vietnam Service Medal with two Bronze Service Stars. He was a veteran of the Vietnam War. He was currently employed by the Lawton Public Schools as a maintenance supervisor. Survivors include his wife, of the home, two sons Gregory K. Sessoms, Olla, Louisiana and Jason A. Sessoms and his wife Tami, Kodiak, Alaska, a grandson, Quintin A. Sessoms, Olla, Louisiana, a brother, David Ray Sessoms, Salemburg, North Carolina, two sisters Vivian Taylor and her husband Sidney, Roseboro, North Carolina and Janet Naylor and her husband Harold, Salemburg, North Carolina, his mother-in-law, Betsy Lane, Lawton, a sister-in-law, Kathy Brumbeloe and her husband Joel, LaGrange, Georgia and several nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his parents.