Every textile service manager faces challenges in the course of a career. The best overcome obstacles and grow stronger in the process. Few, however, ever faced a series of tests as severe as those that confronted Donald Joyner following a 1963 accident that claimed the lives of his wife Jean and 15-month-old daughter Donna.
 
Joyner, a plant supervisor at Local Linen, Kinston, NC, was moonlighting as a gasoline tank-truck driver when the accident occurred. His family was in the cab with him when another vehicle collided with the truck on a warm Saturday afternoon in August. A ...