Funeral for Carl H. Pyle, Sr., 80, Chickasha will be at 10:00 AM Saturday at the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel, Lawton with Rev. K. C. Hayes, pastor of Bible Baptist Church, Chickasha officiating. Mr. Pyle died Wednesday in Chickasha. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. He was born April 20, 1930 in Washita, Oklahoma to Orren Z., Sr. and Mattie E. (Wilson) Pyle. He grew up in and around the Anadarko and Lawton area. In 1947 he joined the Air Force and served in Okinawa Japan as a welder. He later married Dorothy Darnell and settled in Anadarko where they raised 4 children. He worked as a firefighter for the City of Anadarko for several years and later became a truck driver for Sequoyah Carpet Mills. During this tenure he received recognition for logging 1 million miles over the road. He also worked for Charles Phelps as a bull dozer operator, a truck driver for Ned Pitts, and a yard worker for Junior Parham. He later returned to the City of Anadarko as a Firefighter and retired in 1988. He married Betty Grimes in 1981. She died in 1983. He married Kitty Ruth Tilley in 1986. She died in 2002. He and his wife Kitty retired and settled in a retirement village in Mission Texas and spent the summer traveling abroad. They later moved to Ashdown Arkansas to be closer to Kitty's family. In 2002 he moved to Chickasha and resided there until his passing. He and Kitty had a large family of relatives who knew and remembered him as Papa Carl. He was a wonderful, kind and loving father and friend to all who knew him and was always there in times if need. He was a devout Christian and a strong believer in Christ our Lord. He is survived by his mother, Mattie Pyle, Chickasha, three sons and daughters-in-law; Carl Jr. and Beth Pyle, Anadarko, Ron and Regina Pyle and Garlynn (Gator) and Connie Pyle, all of Chickasha, a daughter and son-in-law; Barbara and Dale Adams, Oklahoma City, grandchildren; Kevin Pyle and his wife Heather and Christy Pyle, all of Anadarko, Dana Duell and her husband Jason, Stillwater, Ronnie Lee and his wife Kristy, Mangum, Dillon Pyle and Kira Pyle, Chickasha, Jason Adams, Oklahoma City and Valerie, Aurelio and Marcus, all of Anadarko and great grandchildren, Jacob Pyle and Kameron M. Lee. He is also survived by step children and their spouses; Don and Linda Dozier and Susan and Joe Ellington, all of Georgia, Patricia Stogner, Ashdown, Arkansas and Vick and Rosie Dozier, Cedar Park, Texas, a niece Shirley (Boots) Howard and her husband D. S., Calvert, Texas and a host of step grandchildren and step great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his father, a brother; Orren Z., Pyle, Jr. and a sister, Wanda Pyle.