Whitney Houston’s funeral will be Saturday in the church where she first sang as a child.
The owner of the Whigham Funeral Home in Newark said Tuesday that the funeral would be at the New Hope Baptist Church , but there will be no wake and no public memorial at Newark’s Prudential Center, the sports arena that Houston’s family had discussed as a possible venue.
The 48-year-old Houston died last Saturday at a hotel in Beverly Hills, California, just hours before she was set to perform at producer Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy Awards party. Officials said she was underwater and apparently unconscious when she was pulled from a bathtub.
