‘Hee Haw’ star and gospel sofa was 78

Lulu Roman, who found fame as a comic actress and singer in the TV series “Hee Haw” during a point that lasted from 1969 to 1993, died on Wednesday at the age of 78. No cause was immediately given, except that Roman died unexpectedly.

Apart from her long and successful run on television, including guest spots on “The Love Boat” and “Touched by An Angel”, Roman recorded a long series of albums in the southern gospelmer, who won a Dove Award in 1999 and was initiated into the Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

The show with a national theme Sketch-Comedy and Country Music show was looking for a great actress with comic skills to become a member of the Ensemble-cast when “Hee Haw” went up in 1969. Roman fits in perfectly with the bill, practically a member of the family in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses in many American houses.

Colleague singers and her TV -Costars paid to her on Thursday. “We were just as different as day and night, Misty Rowe said, a” hee haw “in favor.” Working together since 1972 we were the original Hee Haw Honeys and the original Kornfield friends. Yet we would often argue and then make good things by saying “I love you Lu” and she would say “I love you too.” Lulu was a gift in my life. She played my mother twice and yet she was only three years older than me. We were gossip girls and now Lulu is my angel in heaven. I thank God for her time here on earth and I know that we will someday see her again in that big Kornfield in heaven. She will sing us at home. ”

Roman has credited ‘Hee Haw’ co-gastheer and land legend Buck Owens for having her break. “He said,” These days you will become a big star, and I will have something to do with it. ” I say: Cowboy ‘,’ she remembered ‘the’ 700 club ‘. Girl-Next door Type and one boy’s type;

She added, joked, “I was of course the beautiful blonde … He said:” They are going to do this country and type of Western type, and they will call it “hee haw”. I said, “What?” He said, “Hee hawLike a donkey. “I said,” Of course. ” He said, “There is a lot of money.” I said, “Keep talking.” ‘They put me on a large jet plane and they flew me to Hollywood, took me to CBS television studios. The first person I saw was Carol Burnett. I will never forget it as long as I live. She met us in the hall and said: “Close your mouth, child. You get stuck to be one of us. ” ‘

But life outside the Hollywood -Maïsveld was difficult for Roman, who admitted that she “was so confused about drugs … mostly” while she did the show. “In the end I was not broken once, but twice, for possession of dangerous drugs. It finally took me to lose my position about the ‘hee haw’ show for a whole year. In the midst of that I found out that I was very bad with child,” and unwanted

“Hee Haw” was canceled by CBS in 1971, just two years after the run, in what some called a “rural cleansing”. But it became a hit in syndication, and Roman joined the cast in 1973 and stayed with the show until it finally got off the air in the mid -nineties.

Her fighting with narcotic drugs and too much food came partly from leaving an orphanage as a child. Roman, born on Bertha Louise Hable in Dallas, Texas, said Roman, Roman said that she remembered lively the day she was dropped off by her grandmother at the age of 4, on September 10, 1950. “I think I probably felt it a bit harder than most because I was” the fat child “and I said”, “Fat,” Fat, “Fatry Problem,” ” Don’t get through the kitchen door. ” I now realize that even when the enemy had plans to speak the death of my mind. Sugar became my friend because it didn’t hurt me and didn’t speak to me; It didn’t call me names. “

Ironically, that is in her ticket to star. “I learned very early that I could use a quick humor that the Lord had given me to make people laugh with me instead of me.” That sense of humor was polished in the house of the orphans for a long period of time because she said, “I never adopted. They did not adopt fat children.” When she turned 18, she was released from the orphanage the world.

During her forced interruption of “Hee Haw” things went bad enough for Roman that she was imprisoned twice. After a friend from the orphanage meeting each other after she had come out of prison for the second time, she was convinced to attend a church service. “When I sat down on my knees and gave my life to the Lord, I mean, he immediately took those drugs away from me.” The show, well aware of her lasting popularity, even when she was out of the air, took knowledge of her cleaning up. “They said,” Are you coming back? “And I said,” I’ll tell you this: I’ll pray about it. “

Roman returned to the show and continued to hold on to many changes and a switch from a prime-time place to the network to syndication to “Hee Haw” finally signed in 1995, 26 years after it started.

Roman received an allowance to sing Christian songs on the show and released many albums in the southern gospeler during and after her “Hee Haw” Run. She was recorded in the Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

Although Roman found satisfaction in spirituality, her physical health fell to the point that she said she weighed 380 pounds by the time she was in her early 60s and could only make ends meet with a scooter.

But she dropped 200 pounds from her frame and went from a size 56/58 to a size 14/16. “Now I can’t walk alone, but I can run. Not fast, but I can run,” she poured.

Roman was operated on an operation in 2005 and then had to remove the band due to complications in 2009. At that time she was ‘terrified’ that she would regain all weight, but said she could maintain it through her faith and the discipline of portion control.

“You have to choose to be a verbal,” said Roman about finding a way to release her birth family from the animus she held against them to leave her on 4. “Then I had to forgive myself for all the stupid choices I made in my life … You can allow the blood of Jesus to determine who you are, and there is freedom.”

Many friends from the country and the gospel worlds paid tribute to her Thursday.

“I am sad that Lulu Roman has passed,” said Crystal Gayle. “I have known Lulu since the start of my career and she has been a special friend since then. It’s hard to say goodbye. I will miss my old friend.”

“Lulu has been part of my life for the past 56 years, from the day we first met at WLAC in May 1969, for the first recording of ‘Hee Haw’,” said Castlid Cathy Baker. “From that moment on we shared laughter and tears, raised children, lost too many friends, gave each other in comfort and enjoyed the amazing friendship and family ‘Hey Haw’ gave us. It is not easy to say goodbye, even knowing that she is in a much better place, within a circle of infinite love and joy.

‘‘Ulu Roman’s talent knew no limits, “said another Cast member, Victoria Hallman.” I was honored to perform with her on ‘Hee Haw’, as well as in many phase shows, but more than a castmate, Lulu was my big sister. For 26 years of deep love and loyalty, whether it was crying with tears of sorrow or joy, we were there – always. While the whole world is mourning an icon, I mourn the best big sister that someone has ever had. ‘

Roman was preceded in death by her son, Justin Collin Roman, who died in 2017, “a loss that formed her perspective deeply and deepened her faith,” said her official death advertisement.