ROCKY MOUNT – Eula "Tootie" Sessoms, 71, died Friday, Dec. 15, 2006. Funeral services were to be held today (Dec. 20) at 1 p.m. at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church with the Rev. Tyrone Jones officiating. Burial will follow in the Old St. John Cemetery.
Survivors include two daughters, Marie Barnes of Rocky Mount and Arnetta Perkins of Nashville; two sons, Earnest Sessoms of Rocky Mount and Donald Sessoms of Whitakers; one sister, Dorothine Jones of Newport News, Va.; one brother, Nathanial Sessoms of Rocky Mount; and 11 grandchildren.