Death and Taxes

Richard Bloch, co-founder of tax preparation giant H & R Block, was not granted an extension and has completed the short form at the age of 78. The brother's tiny tax preparation firm started with 6 employees in a Kansas City office in 1955, but within 10 years was processing 11% of all filings in the United States, and today prepares more returns than any other company. Diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 1978, then colon cancer in 1980, Bloch survived and became a champion of cancer patients and research for a cure.