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Phil Robertson died astatine 79 connected Sunday pursuing a wellness battle, but the Duck Commander founder’s bequest goes backmost overmuch further than his A&E world series.
Robertson, a Louisiana native, founded the hunting institution much than 50 years agone successful 1972 pursuing a assemblage shot vocation astatine Louisiana Tech wherever helium was a starting backmost earlier Terry Bradshaw took implicit for him.
"I said, ‘Bradshaw, here’s the deal. You’re a large beardown kid, you’ve got a beardown limb and you privation to play successful the NFL and you privation to play football," Robertson told the Ruston Daily Leader successful 2021. "He said, ‘That’s right.’ I said, ‘I’m going aft the ducks afloat time. I’d alternatively hunt ducks than person ample convulsive men stomp maine successful the ungraded . . . You spell for it and I’ll spot you later.’"
In 2020, Robertson was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame arsenic an outdoorsman, the paper reported.
‘DUCK DYNASTY' STAR PHIL ROBERTSON DEAD AT 79: ‘LEGACY OF LOVE FOR GOD’
Phil Robertson died astatine 79 connected Sunday pursuing a wellness battle, but the Duck Commander founder’s bequest goes backmost overmuch further than his A&E world series. ( Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images)
Robertson’s Duck Commander empire includes duck calls, hunting videos and apparel.
His lad Jase Robertson explained however the Duck Commander empire began.
"Dad was hunting connected the (Arkansas-Louisiana) authorities enactment astatine Moss Lake successful 1972 erstwhile his buddy told him helium ought to manufacture the telephone due to the fact that the ducks similar them truthful much," helium told the newspaper. "He told Dad, ‘You don’t conscionable telephone the ducks; you bid them.’ That’s wherever the Duck Commander started."
In his 2013 memoir "Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy arsenic the Duck Commander," Robertson wrote astir increasing up with precise little.
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"I miss the times erstwhile beingness was simple," helium wrote. "I came from humble, humble beginnings. When I was a young lad increasing up successful the acold northwest country of Louisiana, lone astir six miles from Texas and 10 miles from Arkansas, we didn't person precise overmuch successful presumption of idiosyncratic possessions. But adjacent erstwhile times were the hardest, I ne'er erstwhile heard my parents, brothers, oregon sisters utter the words "Boy, we're dirt-poor."
"I miss the times erstwhile beingness was simple. I came from humble, humble beginnings."
— Phil RobertsonRobertson joined his precocious schoolhouse sweetheart, Miss Kay, successful 1966, and they had 4 sons unneurotic arsenic good arsenic 16 grandchildren during their astir 60 years of marriage.
Robertson besides has a grown girl from a decades-old matter successful the 1970s.
He revealed 5 years agone that helium recovered retired helium had a 45-year-old daughter, Phyllis, pursuing a DNA test.
Phil Robertson, with sons Jase and Willie and member Si Robertson successful 2012. (A&E)
Robertson said aft his lad called and told him the DNA was a match, helium instantly said "Bring her connected down."
"It's a beauteous chill mentation of redemption, reconciliation, love," Robertson said connected his "Unashamed" podcast astatine the time. "As it turns out, 45 years, you person a girl that you don't cognize about, and she has a begetter she doesn't cognize about. Forty-five years, that doesn't dependable similar precise long, but you say, that's a while. So finally, aft each those years, we travel together."
Robertson’s sons with Miss Kay see Alan, 60, Jase, 55, Willie, 53, and Jules, 46.
The Robertson family became household names successful 2012 erstwhile they became the taxable of the A&E world bid "Duck Dynasty." The past occurrence aired successful 2017.
Along with "Duck Dynasty," Robertson besides made the bid "Duck Commander" for the Outdoor Channel and his beingness was the taxable of a 2023 movie "The Blind: The True Story of the Robertson Family."
Robertson had been unfastened astir however he discovered faith successful the mid-1970s, telling Fox News Digital successful 2019 helium was surviving recklessly and successful request of salvation.
"Until I was 28 I didn’t person immoderate faith," Robertson told Fox News. "Here I americium biblically speaking — God said I was nether the power of the evil one. I didn’t cognize that. I was conscionable getting precocious and drunk with the worst of them. … I had built a way grounds that was not a bully one. I past realized, ‘What was I thinking? All that mischief and carrying on.’ … I came to cognize Jesus. I looked up 1 time and I said, ‘Man, I’m driven to bash this. I person to bash it.’"
In his 2019 publication "The Theft of America’s Soul," he called for bringing religion backmost into American culture, but helium admitted helium had to deed stone bottommost earlier helium accepted God arsenic his idiosyncratic savior.
Phil Robertson with woman Miss Kay successful 2015. (Tom Pennington/Getty Images for Texas Motor Speedway)
"At archetypal I’m trying to beryllium good," helium explained. "I’m learning however to beryllium good. My friends would travel by, my aged buddies, and they would say, ‘Let’s spell for a ride. Drive up the road.’ I said, ‘Nah.’ My religion was being tested. … I conscionable broke distant from them. … I volition accidental I got an unlisted telephone fig and I hid retired the archetypal twelvemonth portion I was getting connected my spiritual feet. That was 44 years ago. Well, the further I person gone connected my locomotion of faith, the much faithful I person become."
He said helium has since devoted his beingness to helping others.
"[My woman and I] spell to them. The rehabs. The prisons. The downtrodden. The ones that nary 1 would springiness a hoot about. The homeless," helium said. "When we conscionable unneurotic we person food. We conscionable unneurotic connected Sunday mornings. … People who slumber nether bridges tin travel in. [And we] get them a bully meal. … [It’s] each God’s children coming together."
Last December, his lad Jase revealed connected their "Unashamed" podcast that Phil was successful the aboriginal stages of Alzheimer’s disease. He said astatine the clip that helium besides had immoderate benignant of humor illness that had yet to beryllium diagnosed but is "causing each kinds of problems."
On Sunday, his household celebrated his beingness aft confirming helium had died.
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"We observe contiguous that our father, husband, and grandfather, Phil Robertson, is present with the Lord," his daughter-in-law Korie Robertson wrote connected Instagram.
"He reminded america often of the words of Paul, ‘you bash not grieve similar those who person nary hope. For we judge that Jesus died and roseate again, and truthful we judge that God volition bring with Jesus those who person fallen dormant successful him."
She added, "Thank you for the emotion and prayers of truthful galore whose lives person been impacted by his beingness saved by grace, his bold faith, and by his tendency to archer everyone who would perceive the Good News of Jesus. We are grateful for his beingness connected world and volition proceed the bequest of emotion for God and emotion for others until we spot him again."
Phil Robertson with his family. (A&E)
Jase wrote connected X: "My dada has gone to beryllium with the Lord today! He volition beryllium missed but we cognize helium is successful bully hands, and our household is bully due to the fact that God is precise good! We volition spot him again!"
The "Duck Dynasty" X relationship wrote: "We are saddened to perceive of the passing of Phil Robertson, a hunting manufacture pioneer and the patriarch of the beloved Robertson family. Our thoughts are with them during this hard time. We widen our deepest condolences and respect their privateness arsenic they grieve."
House Speaker Mike Johnson, who represents Louisiana, wrote that helium was grateful for the "extraordinary bequest of 1 of Louisiana’s favourite sons," saying that countless radical had been impacted by his beingness and ministry.
"I’m atrocious to perceive that Phil Robertson passed away," Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote connected X. "Many prayers for his family. He shared his religion travel successful a movie called the Blind, 1 of the best."
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders wrote that helium was a "living illustration of what God tin bash successful each of our lives if we travel Him. He was a agleam airy for the satellite to see. Bryan and I are praying for the full Robertson unit tonight."
His lad Willie shared a tribute on his Instagram, penning successful part: "He taught maine galore things successful beingness and astir without ever saying a word. I watched him, and knew helium had figured retired truthful galore things. Most importantly, helium taught maine the worth of sharing my religion with others. He was the Real Deal, the aforesaid connected Sundays arsenic Fridays. Most of our conversations were not astir hunting oregon business, but astir sharing the Gospel."
He said the past words his begetter told him earlier helium died was: "You’re my brother."
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"It made full consciousness to me. He ever told maine we were coworkers successful the Kingdom of God," Willie wrote. "Maybe that’s wherefore I ever conscionable called him Phil … Sleep good Dad, can’t hold to spot you."
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