Evelyn Ward Archer

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral services for Evelyn Archer will be conducted Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. from the Martin Funeral Home of Elk City. Interment will follow in the Cheyenne Cemetery under the direction of the Martin Funeral Home.

Evelyn was born March 8, 1926 in Roger Mills County near Cheyenne to Aaron and Alva Dawkins Ward and died Saturday, February 26 at the age of 73.

She attended Needmore school and married Blane Archer on July 30, 1945 in Wheeler, Texas. They made their first home in Cheyenne and then in the early 1950's. In 1957 they made their home in Weatherford where they have lived since.

She was preceded in death by her parents; one daughter, Barbara Archer and sister, Veta.

Survivors include her husband, Blane Archer of the Weatherford home; two daughters, Vickie Cornell of Lindsay and DeVon Lustfield of Hydro; three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and two sisters, Louise Green of Lytle, Texas and Elaine Brunnert of Collidge, Arizona.