..Whitney Houston’s funeral service is taking place at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, where the music icon first showed off her singing talents as a child. Family and friends celebrating Houston's life include her cousin Dionne Warwick, music mogul Clive Davis, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, R. Kelly, Tyler Perry, Kevin Costner, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Houston, who was found dead last Saturday in a Beverly Hills hotel room at the age of 48, will be buried alongside her father, John Houston Jr., in Westfield, New Jersey..
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