Obituary of Virginia Sue Armstrong

Services for Sue Armstrong, 65, New London, are scheduled for 10:00 am, Monday, March 13, at the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home chapel, Overton with the Reverend Atwell Hankins officiating. Burial will be in the Laneville Cemetery. Mrs. Armstrong died Friday, March 10, in a Longview hospital. She was born September 7, 1940, in Ponta to Pearl and Thelma Carpenter Sessions. She had been a resident of New London for over 30 years. She owned and operated Armstrong Sitting Service. Mrs. Armstrong had served in various offices for the Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion Post, number 419, Henderson. She was a member of the Assembly of God. She was preceded in death by her mother, Thelma Ensminger and a daughter, Michelle Armstrong. Survivors include two sons and a daughter-in-law, Dale and Pam Kern, Jacksonville and Loyd Leo Armstrong, Troup; a daughter and son-in-law, Tammy and Dennis Wilder, Arp; her father, Pearl Sessions. Ponta; five brothers, Kenneth Sessions, Jimmy Sessions, and Donald Guinn all of Jacksonville, and Elton Sessions and Lee Roy Sessions, both of Ponta; four sisters, Ella Faye Martin, Lake Palestine, Margaret McKinley, Henderson, Eva Rocha, Ponta, and Mary Martin, Whitehouse; seven grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Joel McKinley, Harlan Hudson, Dennis Paul Wilder, Jr., Kenneth Sessions, Don Jarrell, and Nolan Bass. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 4:00 pm until 6:00 pm, Sunday, March 12. Following the service, the family will gather at the New London Community Center.