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- W.H. Archer Dies; Service Set for Tuesday
Honored as 50-Year Knight, Dies As Convention Starts
Funeral services for William Henry Archer, who died at 10:10 Sunday morning, will be held at 8 a.m. today in the Colonial chapel of the Neekamp funeral home.
Mr. Archer, who died at his home in Dewey, was 86 years old.
A 50-year member of the local Knights of Pythias lodge, he was one of six to whom homage was being paid during the lodge’s three-day state convention being held in Bartlesville.
Members of the order will served as casket bearers. They are C.V. Reasor, Jim Hammond, Hoyt Huling, H.A. Carson, A. Wickstrum and E. M. Button.
Mr. Archer was an active member of the lodge, filling all offices and working as long as his health permitted.
He had been in failing health for the past several months.
The Rev. S.W. Franklin, pastor of the Dewey Methodist church, will conduct the service. Interment will be in Memorial Park cemetery.
Born Nov. 11, 1864 in Deerfield, Mich., he was married to the late Etta Geneva Hartman Sept. 22, 1889 in Van Buren, Ohio. The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1939.
Mrs. Archer died March 30, 1942.
Mr. Archer followed the oil industry and in 1909 the family chartered a car, moving household goods and came here from Beardstown, Ohio, locating northeast of the city, and have made Bartlesville their home since.
Survivors include two sons, Floyd A. Archer, of the home, and Francis Archer, 1601 Johnstone; five grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren. Two sons preceded him in death, one in childhood and Sam H. Archer, who passed away last April in San Bernardino, Calif.
Bartlesville Record, Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Tuesday, 10 June 1952.
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