Memorial service for Gayle W. Coyle, 85, Lawton, will be 4:00 p.m. Friday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Bishop Clyde Page, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officiating. Mr. Coyle died Tuesday in a local hospital. He was born March 19, 1926 in Skedee, Oklahoma, to Edward James and Grace (Sparrow) Coyle, II. He began his schooling in Skedee and was a 1944 graduate of Pawnee High School. He would later attend Cameron University, earn BA degrees from Central State University and Oklahoma State University and received his Masters degree from the University of Texas El Paso. Mr. Coyle first entered the U.S. Army Air Corp in 1944 and was discharged in 1946. He would reenter the Army in 1950 and serve in Korea before being discharged in 1951. He worked as football coach in Konawa, Hobart and Shidler, Oklahoma. He also had worked in the oil field industry as a mud engineer and later opened his own mud company. In 1960 he joined Las Vegas underground atomic testing and acquired AAA Drapery Cleaners in Las Vegas in 1964. While in El Paso, Texas, he took a job as the assistant dean of financial aid and later worked at the University of Oklahoma as the professor of business administration. He later became the Director of Veteran's Affairs at Cameron University. He taught high school equivalency to juveniles in Grants, New Mexico, and served as a placement director for the Grants New Mexico Junior College as well as serving as a financial officer for a non-profit New Mexico foundation. In 1991 he returned to Lawton and worked as a financial officer for Glamour Studio and as a specialist at Greystone Wedding Chapel. He retired in 1986. He is survived by a daughter and son in law, Michelle Coyle and Jonathan Edwards, Alexandria, Virginia; a grandson, Jack Balsley, Alexandria; two sisters, Laree Sunderman, Gallup, New Mexico, and Marge Schwab, Stillwater, Oklahoma and numerous nieces and nephews. His parents, a brother, Edward James Coyle, III, and a sister Doris Coyle preceded him in death. Memorial contributions may be made to the Lawton Public Library, 110 SW 4th Street, Lawton OK 73501.