Lulu Roman, the actor “Hee Haw” who became a singer of Gospel, died at 78 years old in Bellingham, Washington, his son Damon Roman confirmed The Hollywood Reporter.
The singer “On the Battlefield” died on Wednesday evening, according to a press release obtained by the Times. She called Mont Juliette, tenn., Her house for many years, but lived with her son in the state of Washington at his death.
“Lulu Roman has been a dear friend for over 40 years,” singer Country and Bluegrass Ricky Skaggs said on Thursday on Thursday. X (formerly Twitter). “We loved her. Such a talented person. A great artist, a great singer and a wonderful Christian. We will miss her sweet smile and great hugs. ”
“Sing with the Angels now sweet friend!” The singer Stella Parton tweeted.
“I loved his joyful attitude,” said the United States singer, “Lee Greenwood, in a statement. “She has always raised everyone and her voice will live forever in the country musical community. She was a legend in our industry and we will miss! ”
Novel explained in a 2024 Maintenance That it was a comic strip “Screamin 'Crazy” in Dallas strip clubs when “Hee Haw” was thrown in 1969.
She was born Bertha Louise Habe in Dallas in 1946 in a house for single mothers, abandoned for adoption and raised in an orphanage. Overweight considerably by comforting herself with food, it has never been adopted, according to Weekly FloridaInstead, connecting to drugs when she was in high school.
“I think food has probably become my drug the day they put me in the orphans' house,” she said Cbn When she was sixty. “Sugar has become my friend, because it didn't hurt me. And that didn't answer me, it didn't call me names. I think sugar has become comfort for me when I was very young.”
A thyroid condition did not help.
“I was the proverbial hippie,” she told Florida Weekly in 2020, working as a comic comic dancer. Country and Gospel music was not on its radar. “I was in the drug scene.”
Buck Owens, a famous musician friend who in the late 1960s was about to be on “Hee Haw”, dropped his name to consider the people who threw the show.
“They needed a boy next door, a stupid big man, a big stupid woman,” Roman said in his conversation in 2024 with Nashville Station WTVF. “Buck said:” I have your daughter! She's in Dallas! “”
“And they took his word,” she said after telling the same story about “Larry's Country DinerPodcast in 2021. Roman was thrown into the series, which would go from a summer replacement series for “The Smothers Brothers” to a success for 23 seasons. Roman appeared in 158 of the 352 episodes of the show, including its first and last.
She was absent from the Ringard comedy show from the beginning of 1971 to 1973 after being arrested for drug possession and sentenced to a time behind bars.
“What I unconsciously tried to do is to commit suicide,” she told Florida Weekly, admitting that she used grass, speed, LSD and methamphetamine. “I tried several times, but it never worked. I did not know that God had a kind of call on my life. ”
According to The Outlet, in 1973, she became Christian and “Hee Haw” brought her back to sing Gospel music in the series. She finally released more than a dozen albums and sang with Dolly Parton. She was inducted into the temple of renown of Gospel Country music in the late 1990s.
After playing in Robert Blake's film from 1972 “Corky”, Roman appeared in the spin-off “Hee Haw” “Hee Haw Honeys” in the late 1970s and two episodes of “The Love Boat” in 1983. In 2001, she presented herself on “Touched by An Angel”.
In the early 2000s, Roman could no longer ignore his health, she told CBN. “I had about 380 pounds.
“I came to the place where I was 60, about 61, 62 years old. I said, “Father, I can't be an effective witness to you like that. I can't travel. I can't get up. I can't breathe. And so I knew I had to make a change.
With LAP band surgery in 2005 and the emphasis on control of portions, she fell 200 pounds. The group was removed in 2009, but it finally managed to keep the weight.
“I was terrified. I was, ”she told CBN. “But then I said,” Father, I'm going to trust you that you will allow me to maintain this. “”
Thursday, the former publicist of singer Ben Laurro said People“Lulu Roman was unknown. She endured a lot of adversity in her life which helped her become a joy for others.”
Married twice, Roman is survived by his eldest son, Damon Roman, and in 2017 was preceded by his younger son, Justin Collin Roman.
