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Fyffe Mayor

Larry Lingerfelt 1010 Main Street Fyffe, Al 35971 (256)623-2222

Fyffe Mayor Larry W. Lingerfelt is a lifelong resident of the local community where he graduated from Fyffe High School as part of the Class of 1969.  He went on to attend Northeast State Community College and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Resources from Covenant College.  The Mayor has been married to his loving wife Sherrie for more than 35 years.  Sherrie is a Mathematics Teacher in the DeKalb County School System.  They have two sons that also attended Fyffe High School of which they are very proud:  Wayne, who currently resides in Houston, TX where he is a Chemical Engineer; and Russell, who is pursuing a Doctoral Degree in Religion from Fuller University in Pasadena, CA. 

Mayor Lingerfelt began his working career on the shop floor with the 800 employee Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company facility in Scottsboro, Alabama.  He advanced through the Goodyear organization to a position of senior management, where as a result of buyouts and acquisitions he worked for five additional major corporations without leaving the office.  The Mayor recently retired from the Scottsboro plant after working more than 35 years at the same location where he had more than 33 years of perfect attendance.

Mayor Lingerfelt has broad business management experience with companies, employees, labor unions, and working relationships with other organizations such as area Chamber of Commerce’s and State Government.  He has successfully lobbied in Washington, D.C. at the request of the Alabama State Department of Industrial Relations to help unemployed Alabamians.  He has served on Site Search Teams for Industry and knows what today's industrial organizations are seeking in rural communities such as Fyffe.  In fact the Mayor started his own company more than three years ago that offers both Armed and Unarmed Security for corporations within a 50 mile radius.  The name Fyala Security, Inc. honors his home town and state. 

Although being fairly new to the political arena, Mayor Lingerfelt has just been elected by his peers of other mayors as the Vice-Chairman of the DeKalb Mayors Association.  The DeKalb Mayor’s Association has recently become known as a positive force in the county for pro-active efforts toward required change for the area.