Walter Dyer

Tremendous individual. Amazing business. Outstanding to the community. A team leader in business. A true loss for Massachusetts and the USA. God bless.

What a great man and a very cool guy. My Mom purchased his hand made purple suede suit (pix below) for me in 1968 at the Boston Shop. I was 15. We also would visit and buy at the Rockport Shop. When you walked into the shops the smell of leather was so good. I am going to try and donate it to the Smithsonian Inst. with his history on his eulogy. If not I will leave it to my Granddaughter. Sorry this is so late I know he passed in 2003. When I told my classmates from Lincoln Sudbury High...

I work with his wife Irene under the stairs when I was 9 years old she had me punching holes in the leather she was a very nice person and I also have a lot of memories of Walter and pepper I think of them often they were great

He helped many , many , many , people in the city of Lynn ,
he trusted them and gave them jobs ,
when someone was trying to be released from prison and needed a job
my father was there to help them .
He gave many people opportunities to work for him in his fchactory .
and he came from a humble background born in Maine
he had to leave high school during the depression ,
he was in the Army during WW 2 and served in Germany ,
He was a creative...

Sharon and all,
So sorry to hear about your recent loss, he will be missed by all. He was one in a million and I will always remember him wearing his big
leather cowboy hat and, the times I spent at his leather factory on Broad St. and his shop on Union Street. I was even married in the blue suede fringed vest I bought at his store in 1971.
That is how I got to know the father and family of my friend, Sharon, from school. He was a big colorful character with a heart of...

I'm sorry for your loss. Your dad was "bigger than life", and someone that will never be forgotten.