Happy 93rd, Henry Bloch

Here’s a happy birthday shout out to Henry Bloch at 93.

The co-founder of H&R Block Inc. talked with The Star three years ago as he reached the 90 milestone.

He shared stories about the company’s founding, of the money he wasted hiring a nice setting for when Andy Warhol painted a portrait of his wife, Marion, and how an advertising man at The Kansas City Star got the big tax preparation company off the ground.

Bloch celebrated his 90th with a gift to the city, a new family foundation to improve the quality of life here.

At a celebration of his 90th birthday, Bloch announced the Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation ultimately would inherit all of the couple's personal wealth.

“I worked a lifetime to make this possible,” Bloch had told the few hundred invitees at the celebration at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. “I have felt for many years that I owed a gigantic debt to Kansas City.”

This story was originally published July 30, 2015 at 12:05 PM with the headline "Happy 93rd, Henry Bloch."