Funeral service for Lyle Hensley Ball, 88, Lawton, will be 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 16, 2014, in Lawton Heights United Methodist Church with Rev. Darrel Maddox, Pastor, officiating with Rev. Monte Jones and Rev. Galeda Jones assisting. Mr. Ball died Friday, December 12, 2014, in Lawton Burial with military honors will be in the Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin, under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. He was born September 23, 1926 in Laverne, Oklahoma, to Lyle Hugh and Edith (Hensley) Ball. He was a 1944 graduate of Laverne High School and earned his bachelors degree from Oklahoma A&M in Stillwater. He married Evelyn K. Nickolls on June 29, 1948 in Pawnee, Oklahoma. He served in the U.S. Navy from December of 1944 until his discharge in July of 1946. He worked many jobs through the years having worked for his father in his produce business, at a feed business in Springfield, Missouri, for a stationery store in their shipping department in Denver, Colorado, as an extra board telegrapher with the Frisco Railroad and for Fitch Welding Supply Company in Lawton. He was perhaps best known for his 35 year career with State Farm Insurance Company as an insurance agent. He was a member of Lawton Heights United Methodist Church and had served on the insurance committee for the Oklahoma Conference of United Methodist Churches. He was a 32nd Degree Mason. He was very involved in the Emmaus community, the Kairos group and the Redemption Church. He is survived by his wife, of the home; three children, Katherine Croft, Lakeland, Florida, Richard Ball and wife Cynthia, Oklahoma City, and Beverly Deer and husband Douglas, Duncan, Oklahoma; seven grandchildren, James Hillin, Victoria Meyers, John Terrill, Jeremy Ball, Kristina Cerefice, Deanna Dear and Danielle Dear; four great grandchildren; a sister and brother in law, Donna and Duane Jenkins. Memorial contributions may be made to Lawton Heights United Methodist Church, 1514 NW Andrews, Lawton OK 73507.