Larodean Duhon was born in Edgerly, Louisiana, in 1938. He was a middle child in a family of eight boys and three girls. The family moved to Westlake, Louisiana, when he was eighteen months old. He lived there until finishing his formal education. He then entered the US Air Force. While in the USAF, he served a year on Ascension Island, where they built a missile-tracking system for the future space program. After the Air Force, he attended Tarrant County College, where he won the Wall Street Journal Award for scholastic standing. He began a successful engineering career, where he was the principal designer for telecommunications for Texas Stadium and assistant designer for the Dallas, Fort Worth Airport. He wrote several articles for Telephony and Telephone Engineer and Management as well the Master Builder Magazine headquartered in Kingston Jamaica, WI. He is currently retired, living with his wife of fifty-four years in Southwest Georgia.
