Born and raised in Santa Rosa, Le Duc was a lifelong Santa Rosan. He graduated from Montgomery High School in 1965, and often talked about the friends he’d known since high school, grammar school, and even prior. Per the PHCC, Le Duc’s roots in the community ran incredibly deep and were a big reason for the success of his plumbing business. Le Duc would often humbly attribute any success to the fact that he worked with everyone he grew up with.