The
body of Whitney Houston arrived in her home state of New Jersey for a
funeral to be held at week’s end, according to multiple report.The plane
carrying Houston left Los Angeles late Monday and arrived later at
Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, a few miles west of Manhattan, Reuters
reports.
Houston’s
family raised the possibility of holding a wake Thursday and funeral
Friday at Newark’s Prudential Center, an arena that hosts college and
professional sport events and seats about 18,000.
The
48-year-old pop star was found dead in the bathtub in her hotel room at
the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, hours before she was supposed to
appear at a pre-Grammy gala.
Law
enforcement sources told CBS News that while there were no illegal
substances found in Houston’s hotel room, there were prescription drugs.
Authorities said the most likely theories for Houston’s death are that
she died of a heart attack or a prescription drug overdose, but no
official determination has been made,
Funeral
arrangements were being made by Newark’s Whigham Funeral Home, which
handled the 2003 funeral of Houston’s father, John Houston, according to
the two people who spoke to the AP.
A
woman at the funeral home said she could neither confirm nor deny
reports that Whigham would handle the arrangements. A canopy was being
constructed Monday afternoon at the rear entrance.
The Los Angeles coroner’s office said Houston’s body was released to the family late Monday morning.
source:CBS
