LAJ Story last updated at 1:31 a.m. Thursday, February 26, 2004 Otis Melton Archer Services for Otis Melton Archer, 97, of Lamesa will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004, at the Second Baptist Church in Lamesa with the Rev. Dan Collum officiating. Burial will be in the Lamesa Memorial Park under the direction of Branon Funeral Home of Lamesa. Mr. Archer died Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2004, at Medical Arts Hospital in Lamesa. He was born on Feb. 11, 1907 in Bosque County, Texas to William James and Mary Margaret Cheek Archer. He moved to Dawson County in 1921 and began to farm and ranch in the western part of the county for many years. He married Jewel Smith on April 27, 1927 in Klondike, Texas. She preceded him in death on March 5, 1997. Mr. Archer was a charter member of Northridge United Methodist Church in Lamesa. He was preceded in death by his parents, his brothers, his sisters; a son, James Melton Archer; four grandchildren, Linda Cozart, Billy Melvin Archer, James Michael Archer, and Stephen Archer.