Fans and assemblage aggregate in several places forth the avenue the celebration took from the Newark burial home to the cemetery about 20 afar abroad in Westfield, area Houston was active abutting to her father, who died in 2003.
The 48-year-old accompanist died Feb. 11 in California, hours afore she was to appear a pre-Grammy Awards party. No account of afterlife has been determined.
On Saturday, she was mourned at an invitation-only burial at the abbey in Newark area she sang in the choir as a child. She was remembered by the better names in the music: Stevie Wonder and Alicia Keys sang, and industry mogul Clive Davis was amid those who spoke, as was Kevin Costner, Houston's co-star in "The Bodyguard."
The burial was bankrupt to fans, who were not accustomed aural blocks of the church. Still, abounding came to Newark to booty allotment in what means they could, some from as far as Miami and Washington, D.C.
Fans aggregate afresh abreast the burial home Sunday morning, and some alike boring ran alongside the hearse as it began the adventure to Houston's gravesite. Several yelled out "We adulation you, Whitney" as the hearse, which had a atramentous and white headshot of the brilliant in a window, boring collection away.
Barbara Davis, 53, of Newark, said she had been cat-and-mouse alfresco the burial home back 8:30 a.m., acquisitive to get a glimpse of Houston's final trip.
"To be actuality at her home-going is an account and a blessing," Davis told The Star-Ledger of Newark.
Also amid the army was Newark citizen Eva Aquino and her two granddaughters, ages 10 and 13. All three stood on a artery bend as the hearse anesthetized by, and they acclimated cellphones to breeze photos of the procession.
The girls were cutting T-shirts and buttons of Houston that their grandmother had bought from vendors alfresco the burial home Saturday.
"We came actuality and bought all these things of her to admire the memories," said 13-year-old Nalani Velez of Kearny.
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