Article: Dyer survives loss, beats odds in a man's industry. (Linda Dyer, chief executive officer of Larry Dyer Co.)

No one can say Linda Dyer has had success handed to her on a silver platter.

But like the phoenix, Dyer has always found the wherewithal to rise out of disaster and come out stronger than before.

When her elder son died in an accident in 1977, her husband, Larry, who had developed a reputation as one of the premier cutting tool salesmen in the business, found a way to stay home with his wife and surviving son, Slayde, when they needed him most.

He started Larry Dyer Co. in 1978 out of the family's North Little Rock home, and by 1984 the cutting tool distribution company had grown to the point where it could move into its current location in Sherwood ...

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