Memorial Services for "Dr. Bob" - Robert T. Sessions, MD - to be held on December 12, 2009. Services, Saturday, December 12, 2009, Marietta, GA, 2:00 pm: Marietta Cemetery, 395 Powder Springs St. 3:00 pm: First United Methodist Church, 56 Whitlock Ave. Depending on whom you ask, Robert Thomas Sessions, MD, known to one and all as "Dr. Bob," will be remembered as a circuit riding country doctor who made house calls and accepted chickens and vegetables in exchange for his services, as an innovative cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon who opened Kennestone Hospital's first Intensive Care Unit and the Southeast USA's first Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, as an unofficial 'Doctor without Borders' who dug wells and ran health clinics in India and saw patients in Yemen, as an accomplished mountaineer with more than 30 ascents of Colorado's Long's Peak to his credit, as a self-taught restorer of vintage automobiles, as a furniture craftsman, surgical equipment inventor, high school championship golfer, Bible studies teacher, Contra dance enthusiast, bird watcher, squirrel foe, clinical researcher, state-appointed medical malpractice investigator, expert horseman, and dedicated practical joker. Dr. Bob died on November 12, at the age of 79 from complications secondary to a broken hip. He is survived by his daughters Kimberly Hagen, Melissa Bothwell, and Jean Wilund and by his son Robert T. Sessions, Jr. In addition to his children, Dr. Bob's family includes his wife Jean (deceased); four sons and daughter-in law, Karl Hagen, Kathy Wolf Sessions, Jim Bothwell (deceased), and Larry Wilund; six grandchildren, Katelyn and Kristy Sessions, HannahBrooke Bothwell, and Bobby, Brittany, and Carolyn Wilund; two brothers, Dr. Don Sessions (St. Louis) and Dr. David Lee Sessions (Portland, OR); and one sister, Melissa English (deceased); 15 nieces and nephews; two society finches (Falcon 1 and Falcon 2); and hundreds of friends, colleagues, and former patients. His children ask that all of those whom Dr. Bob's life has touched congregate with them on Saturday, December 12 to celebrate a life well lived and a father, physician, humanitarian, and friend well loved. Memorial Gifts: Dr. Bob's perspective on life was shaped in his boyhood by the view he gained from the summit of the Rocky Mountains. Because of this the family asks that memorial gifts be directed to the John Austin Cheley Foundation (c/o Treasurer, PO Box 934986, Atlanta, GA 31193-4683) to help fund "camperships" to Cheley Colorado Camps in order to give other young boys and girls an opportunity to climb as high and see as far.