As her private, invitation-only memorial service draws near, details surrounding the ceremony honoring the life and legacy of Whitney Houston are made known.
According to published reports, the memorial service will be noon on Saturday (February 18) at New Hope Baptist Church in her hometown of Newark, New Jersey. Gospel singer and pastor Marvin L. Winans will eulogize the superstar, having also officiated her 1992 marriage to Bobby Brown. The family has asked that instead of sending flowers, fans donate to the Whitney E. Houston Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, which was previously known as the Franklin School when Whitney was a student.
As the state’s flags are flown at half-staff on Saturday, 1,500 individuals will make their way inside the church for the ceremony, which is said to include a song from godmother Aretha Franklin with other celebrities such as Chaka Khan, Jennifer Hudson, Ray J and Brandy, among others, in attendance. The service will be reportedly broadcast on television and online. Although her family has yet to confirm her burial location, TMZ reports she will be interred at Fairview Cemetery next to her father’s grave.
Where is Fairview Cemetary?
why? you gonna go visit it? i mean damn…get a life. can’t they have any damn privacy. ugh. hasn’t whitney given you and everybody else enough of her life? let her rest in peace. where are your family members buried?
LOL
God rest her beautiful soul.
I just read that some New Jersery are appalled that the flags will be half staff for (as they wrote) “a washed up drug addict.” HUH!! So, now we have to defend the New Jersey flags being half staff for Whitney? Really. I don’t get it. So, now her drug use makes her “underserving of such an honor” yet they did it for Frank Sinatra who had mob ties. Huh? It’s too early for this. I do not have time. She contributed to the cultural and artistic fabric of American society. So, lower the flags and after the funeral raise them and resume your day-to-day life. People still mourning Elvis and Judy Garland but want to disrespect Whitney when all three of them (and many more) had the same demon. Good bye. I do not have time.
RIP Whitney Elizabeth Houston. I pray that you found the peace your soul so desperately was looking for. Thank you for what you gave us – TIMELESS MUSIC.
I will always love you.
Some people are truly ignorant. Whitney contributed greatly to music and art, and yet people are being rude and disrespectful. I’m not here for it.
Those white people probably wouldn’t be complainging if Bruce Springsteen died…..smh.
What you all have to understand and keep in every thought is that white people are jealous of black peoples vocal strength, physical athletic ability. endurance and harmony with nature and the sun, which is an opposition for them. They hate that they age fast and cannot look as good as Whitney at 50. White people are mad that their existence is recessive and not as powerful and black people. Did you all know that every cure to every disease is done with black blood and black DNA, because theirs is a weaker version of the original.
White people are Jealous of black people period.
All of you guys said I agree!!! Preach it!!!! They are mad that she’s getting love from everyone and they decide to bash her just to rise themselves up, time to ignore those fools because they know that God loves her and they are mad. Point blank!!!
i do appreciate Gov. Christie’s response: “there but for the grace of God, go I..” he said she was a daughter of NJ and a source of tremendous pride for the city of newark.
Have they even confirmed the cause of death yet!? Everyone is still on this drug thing, but I have yet to read an official cause of death. That stuff always takes weeks to verify.
No. It takes like maybe 4- 8 weeks.
I thought they already did. It was alcohol and some prescription drug that she overdosed on. On my AOL browser, I clicked a link to this big news website and they reported it. I mean… I don’t know if it’s true, but it definitely seemed legit; it wasn’t like it was from some gossip website.
They said it was prescription drugs
RIP Nip. I don’t think I’ll watch. I mean, as much as she loved to sing – I got the impression in multiple interviews that she gave that she thought people asked too much sometimes. While nobody more than her family, except for God, knows what she would have wanted to happen w/ her service – this will be my way of respecting her memory – by not participating in the spectacle.
We miss you Aunt Whitney <3