Ang Silai remembered friends and family at the funeral

Family and friends remember the actor at his funeral Wednesday at the George Jefferson, Texas, television is his most famous role, his video clip.

About 150 people attended the service in the the CIELO Vista church in El Paso. Angsi Lai, 74, died of lung cancer on July 24, but his funeral was delayed in his manor struggle.

Mourners could not help but laugh, because they saw the clip Angsi Lai irritability, paranoia and owned a chain of dry cleaning industry in "Jefferson."

"He helped us laugh, gave us a chance to forget their troubles, the pressures of life," the Rev. Shan Mu Falao of the El Paso Police Department within, in Ang Silai eulogy.

Angsi Lai, Air Force veterans, was buried at Fort Bliss National Cemetery.

"I can describe it the best way we sent out a dove" at the funeral, an old friend of the Huadu Enchinton Bernal said the ceremony in Fort Bliss. "Just release him and let him, let him explore the universe, a universe."

She was named the the for Ang Silai heir, he will, but the half-brother of the late actor, Richard Thornton, challenges from Philadelphia. An El Paso judge ruled earlier this month.

Sherman the Alexandria Ang Silai presses father and mother of the son of a factory work. He has served four years in the Air Force and worked eight years for the U.S. Postal Service clerk.

After studying at the Philadelphia Academy of Dramatic Arts as a teenager, he began seminar in New York and theater companies, including blacks Orchestra company. Over the years, he has retained his work in the post office, the night before, the transition to the agent full time.

His Broadway debut in 1970, "Purlie, Ossie Davis," the musical adaptation of the Jim Crow era of play "Purlie victory. "(The Angsi Lai and later starred in the" Purlie ", as well as in the 1981 TV version.), At the same time to visit the exhibition, Ang Silai approached the role played by the sitcom, will become" all television producer Norman Lee Seoul in the family. '

Angsi Lai participated in the program in 1973, he immediately jumped from an obscure theater actors strike personality on a very popular show. Two years later, his character George Jefferson "All in the Family" spin-off "Jefferson has become a hero."

Jefferson character design, Angsi Lai said, "pompous and domineering."

"All of this is really difficult ... because - rude, I do not like this," Angsi Lai said in a U.S. television interview in 2003 archived. "But it's character, I had to do this, I was a real character, if I pull things back, then it does not work."

Robert Almonte, Western District of Texas in the United States, is also a friend Ang Silai Marshal said funeral actors under the Earth "and" do not like to be seen as George Jefferson. "He said, from the characters, Ang Silai is completely different.

"This is what a great actor, he is," said Almonte.

After "Jefferson" was canceled, fiery Philadelphia church deacon Ernest Frye in Ang Silai starring sitcom "Amen" from 1986 to 1991.

He is often a guest of the sitcom, including "Family Affairs" and "Hughleys." He even landed the role of the sound, the "family man".

Ang Silai twice reprized the role of George Jefferson - "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" and last year's Penn's home. "

In later years, his life, his West Texas El Paso his home. Almonte said he had asked Ang Silai and his family in Philadelphia and the actor said: "I'm from Philadelphia, but El Paso is my home now and Flora is my family."

Enchinton Bernal said, after four months of fighting with her beloved friends is Hemsley buried, she was looking forward to a peaceful Thanksgiving. She said she will "set a plate the Sherman location of the place where he used to sit."