Obit of Olive Archer (a626) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Wanda Purcell   <wpurc25758@aol.com>  4 Nov 2000   
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Surnames: Archer, Pike 

Olive Archer of Cheyenne passed away at 12:55 a.m. April 3, 1984. 
Mrs. Archer had been a resident of Hydro Manor Nursing Home for the 
past 2 1/2 years. She had enjoyed good health and had celebrated her 
100th birthday last Jan. 4 with her children, grandchilldren, great 
grandchildren,, great great grandchildren and a host of friends and 
other relatives.

On March 26, Mrs. Archer suffered a heart attack at Hydro Nursing 
Home and was taken to the Weatherford Hospital where she remained 
for seven days until her death. She was buried at Cheyenne Cemetery, 
Cheyenne, Roger Mills County following the funeral held at the 
Baptist Church in Cheyenne at 2:00 p.m. April 5.

Mrs. Archer is survived by 5 daughters and 2 sons: Ruby Montgomery 
of Milwaukie, Oregon; Jewel Enyart of Alice, Texas; Nola Walker of 
Bend, Oregon; Blaine Archer of Weatherford, OK; Marie Archer of 
Wynnewood, Okla.; Lucile Martini of Portland, Oregon; and Oscar 
Archer of Price, Utah; 37 grandchildren, 77 great grandchildren, 7 
great great grandchildren and one sister, Sylvia Meyers of Magnolia, 
Okla.

Mrs. Archer was born and grew up near Graysville, MO. At the age of 
19 years on March 31, 1903 she was married to Calvin C. Archer of 
Glendale, MO. The young couple the following day boarded the train 
to Elk City, Okla. There they filed a homestead claim and settled in 
the Three Corner Dist., about 10 miles east of Roll. This was prior 
to Okla., statehood and was known as "Oklahoma Territory." For the 
first year of their marriage their first home was a "dug out" with a 
thatch rood and dirt walls and floor. Later Mr. Archer built their 
first house, consisting of one room. This had a real rood, real 
walls and real floor. A great improvenment.

In this rural community Mrs. Archer gave birth to eleven children. 
One child, a daughter, was lost at age 2. The remaining ten grew to 
adulthood. Twenty years ago in 1964 at the age of 84, Mr. Calvin 
Archer passed away and since then Mrs. Archer has lost her first 
three children: Lawrence Archer of Sayre, Ok and Loyd Archer