I met him at one of his youngest son's wrestling tournaments while he was still in HS. Son wrestled for one of the HS around Canton, Ga and Dusty would come to most and usually had a couple of fellow professional wrestler's with him. Cody was a pretty good HS wrestler. The same county also had Rich Steiner as a commissioner around the same time.
But like you said, he was a super nice guy, as most really were, and was very accomodating to fans when he was just there as a proud Dad.