Joe Dyer was the originator of the drug business in the Dyer family. Joe had four brothers and five sisters. Four of the five boys became pharmacist except, John Dyer, who worked in the drug store in Trenton, Texas, never becoming a licensed pharmacist. John had three boys...all becoming pharmacist. The eldest child, Frances Marion Dyer known by his family as “FM” began his work in Trenton and recalls only being allowed to work for a very short time because there wasn’t enough income in one store to support two families. He was transferred to Sherman to work at a Dyer-Jones (relative by marriage) before moving to Farmersville in 1933. It was known as Dyer-Jones when it opened in 1928 but was changed to Dyer’s Drug in the early 1930's when “FM” purchased from his uncle Joe. “FM” passed the business to his daughter Frances Dyer Hickman and son Ben.