"Billy just had this way about him and you obviously noticed him automatically no matter where he was at," Bill Byrge's cousin Sharon Chapman tells PEOPLE

"He was a beautiful soul who made people laugh without even trying," his cousin, Sharon Chapman, wrote on Facebook.

Bill Byrge, an actor recognizable from his work in the Ernest movies, died on Thursday (Jan. 9), TMZ reports. He was 92. While no cause of death has been disclosed yet, the late actor’s cousin Sharon Chapman announced the news of Byrge’s death on Facebook, noting that he died yesterday at around noon in Nashville.