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Whitney Houston's Body Arrives Home In New Jersey
Posted on Tue Feb 14, 2012 06:30 AM PDT
The body of Whitney Houston arrived in a gold hearse to a funeral parlor in her home state of New Jersey, where a memorial service will be held for around 18,000 people at Newark's Prudential Center, at the end of the week.
Houston's family is reportedly holding a wake on Thursday and funeral on Friday for the 48-year-old pop star, who was found dead in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, just hours before she was set to make an appearance at a pre-Grammy gala.
While it has been suspected that Houston's death was a result of a drug overdose, authorities are not ruling out natural causes. Los Angeles assistant chief coroner Ed Winter confirmed that the prescription bottles in her room were not "alarming" or "out of the ordinary," but toxicology reports will not be available for several weeks.
Newark's Whigham Funeral Home is handling the singer's arrangements, which is the same funeral home that organized the 2003 memorial of Houston's father, John Houston.
Whitney was born in Newark and raised in nearby East Orange, New Jersey. She first starting singing at Newark's New Hope Baptist Church, where her mom, Grammy Award-winning gospel singer Cissy Houston, was the head of the music program for many years. Dionne Warwick, Whitney's cousin, also sang in its choir.
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Whitney Houston's Body Arrives Home In New Jersey
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RIP.
RIP----- Was one of the Greats
she should have stayed there.
when very naive raised (Future Stars) like Michael Jackson & Whitney Houston move to california they meet/deal very different persons as where they came from........
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The big elite music world creeps reveled and partied under her dead corpse in the hotel and pretended to have great shock and boo-hoo's.. on her sudden passing.. Shovel her in the ground in Jersey is the final shameful kick out from the entertainment industry who used and abused her.. by letting her drug and drink herself to death.. by not calling the law.
bobby brown you are a piece of shit..your daughter should be more important then your friends..you should have been there..oh yeah or were you coked out....
but that said whitney was a drug addicted mom..should she be a hero no....and unfortunatley people that commit sucide go to hell...read the bible thats what it says
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