Ira Doyle Westfall was born April 11, 1927 in Carney, Oklahoma.

He went to be with his Lord on October 18, 2011.

After graduating from Carney High School at the age of fifteen, he served in the Merchant Marines during World War II. Upon his return from the war, he married Hearoldean Carder on January 18, 1946.

Over the next several years, while he and his wife were raising a family, he worked several different jobs to provide for them. He completed his Bachelor of Science degree at Oklahoma State University and Master's degree at Central State University. Doyle was talented and creative and found many vocations interesting and challenging including: farming, ranching, dairy, auctioneering, working in all levels/positions in the oil field industry, selling life insurance, driving a semi for Wilsey-Bennett and later buying his own rig to drive.

He taught at Veteran's Vo-Tech in Elmore City, and then taught at Canton High School, where he also coached and refereed basketball. He was a teacher and the Principal of Crescent High School {where his daughter and granddaughter Jacki loved having him as her science teacher}, and then finished his teaching career at Choctaw/Nicoma Park Schools, and then he retired. He loved teaching and truly enjoyed his students. He loved being available to help them.

Doyle and his family were committed to being actively involved in helping in the churches they attended throughout the years. He was a Deacon at Tryon Baptist and Canton Baptist Churches. He was the treasurer and sound tech at Streetman Road Baptist Church and a founding member of Our Lord's Bible Church. He enjoyed being active and involved at a young age and carried the zest for living throughout his life.

He became an Eagle-Scout at fourteen years of age. He was a 32nd Degree Mason, the highest level to achieve in the Masonic Order. During his retirement years he volunteered as a firefighter at Lake Texoma. Doyle was extremely intelligent, evidencing this in his knowledge of many and varied subjects from daily current events including business, the market, world issues to local stories to family. He kept his brain active by continually challenging himself to learn new things. He was a great communicator and enjoyed visiting with family, friends, and those he met in passing throughout each day. He had a great sense of humor and was very playful in joking around with others.

He lived life one day at a time and tried to enjoy those days to the fullest. He was a great encourager of all people he came in contact with, friends and family, to live in the moment and their greatest potential.

Doyle was gifted with many wonderful qualities he was loving, kind, funny, intelligent, steadfast, supportive, generous, adventurous, and encouraging. He departed this world having made it, and the people he touched, better.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Ivy and Stella Westfall and two brothers, Jimmy and Lavern.

He is survived by his wife of sixty five years, Hearoldean; daughter, Janis Harp; son, Ivy Doyle and his wife Sandra; all of Midwest City; seven grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren; his sister, Neva Alexander of Little Rock, Arkansas; and brother, Leahn Westfall of Nicoma Park; and many other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m., Friday, October 21, 2011, at Highland Baptist Park with burial to follow at Carney Cemetery, Carney, Oklahoma.