Ladalia Ann Postell was born in Albany, Georgia. She attended Albany State College, now University, and obtained a B. A. degree in Sociology, with a minor in Elementary Education. Ladalia was only nineteen when she began her teaching career and taught six years before relocating to Fort Benning Military Base.

Ladalia was married at age twenty, and blessed with a son, Robert J. Griffin Jr., who has further blessed her with two beautiful grand children, Arianna Ladalia, and Robert III.

In the middle seventies, Ladalia relocated to Flint, Michigan, where she completed an Addiction Studies Program at Hurley Medical Center; after which she worked as a Substance Abuse Therapist at Insight Inc. for twenty years. She acquired a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Ladalia is a faithful member of Grace Emmanuel Baptist Church in Flint, Michigan under the guidance of Pastor Marvin A. Jennings, Sr. She loves the Lord and is inspired by His word.