{"id":17986,"date":"2012-11-12T16:11:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17986"},"modified":"2012-11-12T16:11:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:11:29","slug":"judge-sherman-hemsleys-will-valid-actor-can-be-buried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17986","title":{"rendered":"Judge: Sherman Hemsley\u2019s Will Valid, Actor Can Be Buried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TX \u2014 Deceased actor <strong>Sherman Hemsley\u2019s <\/strong>longtime friend can proceed with his burial and running his estate, a Texas judge ruled Friday over the objections of his half-brother from Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hemsley<\/strong>, who played <strong>George Jefferson<\/strong> on the TV sitcom <em>\u201cThe Jeffersons,\u201d<\/em> died July 24 of lung cancer. His body has been in refrigerated storage at an El Paso funeral home since.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judge Patricia B. Chew<\/strong> sided Friday with <strong>Flora Enchinton Berna<\/strong>l, who was named in<strong> Hemsley\u2019s<\/strong> will as the executor of his estate. <strong>Chew<\/strong> upheld the validity of his will and granted Enchinton \u201cthe authority to dispose, I shouldn\u2019t say dispose, to proceed with the remains of <strong>Sherman Hemsley<\/strong> in a manner as she wishes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DNA tests showed Friday that 78-year-old<strong> Richard Thornton<\/strong> is <strong>Hemsley\u2019s<\/strong> half-brother. He wanted to bury his brother at a veterans\u2019 cemetery in Philadelphia, where <strong>Hemsley<\/strong> grew up.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TX \u2014 Deceased actor Sherman Hemsley\u2019s longtime friend can proceed with his burial and running his estate, a Texas judge ruled Friday over the objections of his half-brother from Philadelphia. Hemsley, who played George Jefferson on the TV sitcom \u201cThe Jeffersons,\u201d died July 24 of lung cancer. His body has been in refrigerated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}