Whitney Houston News

Whitney Houston News, The death of singer Whitney Houston the day before the Grammy Awards is likely to be ruled an accident, E! News is reporting. The entertainment network is citing “a source with knowledge of the ongoing investigation,” for the exclusive information, which is being shared by other publications today.

Houston, 48, was found dead in the bathtub in her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel February 11, just hours before she was due to attend the annual bash hosted by her onetime mentor, Clive Davis.

Family members of the late pop icon and actress, says E!, have remained sure that Houston died accidentally, and not because of any deliberate actions on her part.

Authorities ruled out foul play in the singer’s death early in the investigation. However, Houston’s cause of death has been listed as “deferred” while the Coroner’s office awaits the results of toxicology reports.

Whitney Houston Burial

Whitney Houston Burial, Whitney Houston was laid to rest on Sunday in a private burial before family and close friends near her birthplace in Newark, New Jersey, more than a week after her sudden death shocked the world.

The pop star, whose powerful voice fuelled her rise to fame in the mid-1980s with self-titled albums that made her a global pop star, died in a Beverly Hills hotel room last week. She was found underwater in a bathtub, but an exact cause of death has yet to be determined.

Dozens of fans lined the edge of street barriers as the procession carrying Houston’s body drove by under tight security from a funeral home in Newark, New Jersey to the Forest Lawn cemetery in nearby Westfield where Houston’s body was buried next to her father.

“It was emotional,” Teresa Giannetta, 35, who lives in Westfield and showed up with her daughter, Julia, 8, said after the hearse went by. Like many fans, Giannetta said she grew up listening to Houston’s music and likened the singer to “the voice of my childhood.”

“It’s bittersweet to have her buried so close to home for us,” she said.

Houston was laid to rest in her burial site after stars, family and friends mourned her in a spirited Baptist funeral service at her hometown church on Saturday. The New Hope Baptist Church in Newark was where Houston honed her wide vocal range as a young choral singer with her mother Cissy Houston, a backup singer for Aretha Franklin.

Whitney Houstons Death

Whitney Houstons Death, A funny thing happens to us all, along this journey called life — if we live long enough. We awaken one day to discover that we are no longer children; no longer innocent babes protected in the care of our parents. We come to realize that the weight of this world now rests upon our own shoulders; so we get jobs, we marry, we divorce, and we parent our own children. The life cycle is in continual motion, and we are all moving so fast.

But every once in a while we get a jolt of reality; a nudge from fate that says “pay attention: expiration date inevitable.” We lose someone iconic like Whitney Houston, and suddenly we are grudgingly reminded of the Latin maxim Tempus Fugit: time flies and it waits for no man.

Those of us who grew up as the so-called “X” generation (born 1964-1977) will forever remember Whitney as this tall, beautiful, songstress, with great hair, an infectious laugh, and a vibrant spirit, who burst on the scene in the mid 1980s, when we were in junior high or high school. So for us, to see her laid to rest at 48 years of age, with the cause of her death unknown, but a mix of prescription drugs and alcohol suspected, is surreal. It is mind numbing, and it is heartbreaking.

I was boarding a plane from Florida back to Washington yesterday, just as Whitney’s funeral had begun, and I landed just as it was ending. What struck me, through the fog of my own tears and emotion over the passing of this beautiful cocoa brown sister was how much of an impact she had on people from all walks of life: black, white, yellow, red, male, female, liberal, conservative, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish.

I saw and felt it all around me yesterday.

When I left Orlando, all of us were gathered around one TV set watching Kevin Costner speak, and there was not a dry around me. On the plane, we had in-flight TV service and everyone had it on their screens. We were talking, crying, sharing lessons to be learned, and shaking our heads in disbelief. When we landed at Dulles airport and walked off the plane, Whitney’s voice could be heard everywhere singing, “I Will Always Love You”, and then the casket was carried out the door of her home church by the pallbearers, and you could hear a pin drop in one of the world’s busiest airports. People stood silent, heads bowed, tears falling, deeply hurt because we all understood that one day, “there go I.” We all understood that one day, we will bury our loved ones, and we ourselves will be buried. It was one of the most sobering moments of my life, and that of those around me.

​ In that moment we all understood that life ends, no matter how we try to outrun and cheat death. Eventually death will win. But as Bishop TD Jakes reminded us on Saturday in his remarks at Whitney’s funeral: “it only looks like death has won. Love is stronger than death.”

Whitney Houston Funeral Televised

Whitney Houston Funeral Televised, As preparations continue for what’s expected to be a star-studded funeral for Whitney Houston, New Jersey police have urged fans to stay away from the private service.

On Thursday, Newark police said that six square blocks around the New Hope Baptist Church, where Houston began singing as a child, would be cordoned off on Saturday and that fans would not be allowed in.

Newark police director Samuel DeMaio advised fans to stay home to watch the funeral, which will be broadcast on TV and streamed online. He also said there would be no procession from Newark’s Whigham Funeral Home, where Houston’s body is resting, to the church.

However, as of Friday morning, fans and media had already gathered outside the church.

In New Jersey, devotees have left flowers, photos, messages and other tribute items to the singer at the church, the funeral home and the school renamed for Houston. Fans have appealed for a public memorial where they can also unite to grieve the singer.

The singer’s final resting place will be next to her father, John Russell Houston Jr., at the Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, N.J. following Saturday’s funeral, a source close to the family told The Associated Press.

New Hope Baptist Church

New Hope Baptist Church, Whitney Houston’s funeral will be held at noon on Saturday at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, both Houston’s rep and a Whigham Funeral Home staff member confirmed to Us Weekly Tuesday.
The funeral is by “invitation only” and there will be “no wake.” A source adds that “anyone not invited will stand outside.”

The 48-year-old Grammy winner’s mother, Cissy, “was at the funeral home until 2 a.m.” Tuesday, the source tells Us. Dismissing previously reported venues, Cissy “made it clear that a funeral must be inside a church, and the Prudential Center is not an appropriate venue,” the source adds.

Houston’s body was transported by private jet Monday to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. It was then taken to Whigham Funeral Home in Newark, where her father, John, was laid to rest in 2003.

The “I Will Always Love You” singer was discovered partially submerged in a bathtub inside her Beverly Hilton hotel room Saturday; paramedics pronounced Houston dead at 3:55 p.m.

“This is an unimaginable tragedy and we will miss her terribly,” the Houston family told Us in a statement. “We appreciate the outpouring of love and support from her fans and friends.”

Houston is survived by daughter Bobbi Kristina, 18, and her mother, Cissy.

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