Elizabeth Christine (Reddick) Archer

A tribute to the life of Elizabeth Christine (Reddick) Archer, 86, Clinton resident, will be at 1 p.m. Sunday in the Kiesau Memorial Chapel of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton, officiated by Rev. Ann Clement and Melissa Goodblanket.

The family will gather at a later date to have a private burial in the Clinton Cemetery. By request of the deceased, there will be no viewing of the body.

Mrs. Archer died Thursday, March 5, 2015, in the Integris Clinton Regional Hospital. She was born (delivered by her grandmother) on Feb. 4, 1929 in a two-room log home in Tullokas (Tall Oak), Brooks County, Ga., the daughter of Nicholas “Nick” Max Reddick and Ann (Davis) Reddick.

She entered the workforce as a minor and worked consistently throughout her life, wearing many hats.

In 1955, she moved to Washington State and worked both at Boeing Aircraft and doing seasonal work among the beautiful fields of tulips and daffodils in Puyallup, Wash.

She married in 1958 and gave birth to her only child in 1960. She was divorced in that same year and remained single throughout the rest of her life.

Mrs. Archer served as a hostess for the famed Beacon House of Beef in Maitland, Fla. from 1964 until 1967. She returned to Georgia where she was employed by ITT Thompson Industries until she retired in 1987. She relocated to Clinton in 2001.

Preceding her in death were her parents; a grandson, Mah-hi-vist Goodblanket; a sister, Dorothy Frances Reddick; and two brothers, Raymond Reddick and Charles Reddick.

Survivors include a daughter, Melissa Archer Goodblanket and her husband, Wilbur Goodblanket; one grandson, Ahkl-ta-na-hi Goodblanket, of the home; a sister, Nell Hopper, of Adel, Ga.; a brother, Harrold Reddick, of Valdosta, Ga.; an aunt, Peggy Davis Sweeney, of Washington state; and many nieces and nephews, great nieces and great nephews.