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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1218/
- Published: 2025-05-28T18:30:34.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T18:30:33.000Z
- Description: He decided to pursue a business making and selling duck calls for hunters, patenting his first call in 1972.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> Phil Robertson, the patriarch of hit reality television show *Duck Dynasty* who founded a successful Louisiana hunting business before making a second career for himself on the Christian speaking circuit, died on May 25 at 79.  
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> His family announced the death on social media but did not provide further details. In an episode of the podcast *Unashamed with the Robertson family* that aired in December, Robertson’s son Jase said his father had been diagnosed with a blood disease and early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.  
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> Robertson was born on April 24, 1946, raised in northern Louisiana as part of a large family with seven children and little money. After attending what is now Louisiana Tech University on a football scholarship and then teaching and coaching for several years, he decided to pursue a business making and selling duck calls for hunters, patenting his first call in 1972.  
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