Douglas Winston Archer died of natural causes on April 15, 2024, less than four months after his beloved wife, Michaele, passed away. He was 86 years old.

Born in Hutchinson, Kansas, Doug was the first son of Paul and Mildred Archer. He had a brother, David Robin, and three sisters – Gretchen Elaine Mason of Sarasota, Florida, Alice Kathleen (Dolly) Grey of Davis, California, and Mildred Josephine Ruff, of Chadwick, Missouri.

He graduated from Ottawa High School, Ottawa, Kansas, from Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, and took graduate courses from George Washington University’s School of Personnel Management.

In 1962, he joined the United States Navy and served as Officer of the Deck Underway aboard the USS Enterprise, CVA(N)-65. For more than three years, he sailed around the world in the Navy - stopping in Karachi, Pakistan, Sidney, Australia, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Later he was attached to the Fleet Computer Programming Center, Dam Neck, Virginia, where he served until 1967.

After the Navy, he joined ITT Data Services, and worked in various computing firms, including Comshare, Inc., as the Sales Vice President, until 1992. That year, he founded a computing services firm called Warren-Kieran Consultants, which sold ABRA personnel and payroll systems. In 2001, he became a real estate agent with Buyer’s Broker Realty, then joined Keller Williams Realty in 2007, as a broker, until retirement.

In 1970, he married Michaele Sullivan, the first daughter of Kieran and Helen Sullivan of Virginia Beach. She had one brother - Terrance Wilfred of Colorado - and three sisters – Erin Kathleen, of New Jersey, Shiela Kathleen, of Colorado, and Carlen Gay, of North Carolina. Doug and Michaele had four sons – Paul Warren, of Maryland, Christopher Kieran, of Virginia, Mark Emery, of California, and Matthew Gregory Sullivan, also of California.

Doug was an active member of Galilee Episcopal Church in Virginia Beach, where he served as a Eucharistic Visitor. Throughout the years, many members of the congregation admired the attentive care he provided Michaele after a sudden brain aneurysm left her debilitated. He never complained about his unfortunate circumstances, because he was a perpetual optimist. He truly believed God controlled every aspect of his life, so complaining wasn’t just futile, it was vain. Faith was all you needed, and Doug Archer had plenty of it.

A Memorial Service from the Book of Common Prayer will be held for both Doug and Michaele at Galilee Episcopal Church in Virginia Beach on July 5, 2024.