L.J. Tadrick was born at 4 A.M. on February 19, 1933 in Flint, Michigan. His parents were Joseph Andrew Tadrick and Cecelia (Hunn) Tadrick. At that time they lived at 6153 Maple Avenue. L.J. lost his parents in a tragic murder/suicide on June 14, 1952 when he was 19 years old. He attended Alma College in Alma, Michigan. He later became a construction worker and worked in the trades for many years. During his time as a construction worker, he started doing income taxes for friends and co-workers and found that he was good at it. He was living at a home on Lapeer Road and opened a small home office there. In a few years he moved to 1310 Detroit Street that is now Martin Luther King Avenue in Flint and formed Tadrick’s Tax Service. In 1966 L.J. met Gloria Faye Miller and later that year they were married. L.J. adopted her son, William (Bill) in 1967 and raised him as his own. In 1971 they incorporated their business and since it has been called Tadrick’s Tax Service, Inc. Over the years Tadrick’s grew from one house on Detroit Street to two houses. Within a few more years they had outgrown the two houses in Flint and built a large, 20,000 square foot building at 1110 E. Bristol Road, in Burton, Michigan in late 1978. In January, 1979 they moved to Burton. In November, 1981 L.J. was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. He was paralyzed from a cancer treatment in 1982 and succumbed to the cancer in 1989.