Lyle Dean Weathersby was born May 7, 1965 to Libby and Walter Weathersby in Little Rock, Arkansas. Lyle's father, Walter, served with the Arkansas State Police and was killed in the line of duty when Lyle was just ten years old. Libby and Lyle learned to live on the small widow's pension from the state police and made ends meet. Lyle vowed when he grew up he would have a business of his own and would never have to clip coupons or go without.

Though Lyle was very social and made many friends, he was not scholastically ambitious. He was known all the way through school as the class clown and later, in high school, as a "redneck Romeo." Six foot two since he was thirteen, few boys ever challenged his title with the girls. The only class he excelled at in school was shop. He was able to build just about anything or take anything apart and put it back together. While still in school, Lyle started his own sideline business as a handyman/carpenter/gadget maestro. If it was broken, Lyle could fix it. If it needed to be put together, there was nobody who could do it better.

It was this entrepreneurial ability of Lyle's that led him to getting his own RV dealership in Mountain Home at the age of twenty-three. He started out small and, with a great deal of help from his uncle, Ed Burley, managed to build the dealership up over the course of the next four years.

He met his wife, Merline Mayfield, while she waited for a tow truck on the side of the road, stranded with a flat tire. Lyle pulled up, fixed the flat, and had Merline's phone number in less than twenty minutes. It was a whirlwind romance and they married nine months later in December of 1988. Almost a year and a half after the wedding, Merline gave birth to their only son, Eddy, in May of 1990. Eddy is the spitting image of his father in all the important ways and Lyle fondly says of his son, "he's gonna be a ladies man, just like his daddy." Merline, however, would prefer that Lyle not encourage her son to take after his father's womanizing ways, given the sometime-rockiness of their marriage.

Lyle's charms with the ladies didn't stop when they married and it has been a source of much friction for many years. Though Merline's friends and family have encouraged her to leave Lyle, she refuses saying that he has a good heart and really only loves her. She insists that the other women don't mean anything. Despite Merline's public defense of her husband's behavior, the couple did separate for eight months in 1999 over Lyle's infidelity, but they ended up reconciling and have vowed to make the marriage work. They presently attend marriage counseling sessions and Merline feels it has helped them become closer. And she believes Lyle will settle down eventually and stop pursuing other women to gratify his ego.

Though the dealership, his marriage and his son take most of Lyle's time, he also enjoys bowling, karaoke singing, archery and surfing the internet.