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  • Ben Bernanke’s Dad, Retired Pharmacist ‘Dr. Phil,’ Dies

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    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke‘s father, a retired pharmacist, died Wednesday. Philip Richard Bernanke died at the age of 85 in Charlotte, N.C., according to an obituary in the Charlotte Observer. Fed officials confirmed that he was the father of the Fed chairman. The elder Bernanke met his wife, Edna, while they attended different campuses of the University of North Carolina. After getting married, they moved to Dillon, S.C., where Philip Bernanke ran the Jay Bee Drugs drugstore with his father and brother, Mort. The Bernanke brothers were often known as “Dr. Phil” and “Dr. Mort” to their ... (full story)

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