USA-PEOPLE/BROWN-CEMETERY PREPS Preparations underway in New Jersey for burial of Bobbi Kristina Brown

Record ID: 145260

  • Title: USA-PEOPLE/BROWN-CEMETERY PREPS Preparations underway in New Jersey for burial of Bobbi Kristina Brown
  • Date: 3rd August 2015
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN AT RED CARPET PREMIERE OF "SPARKLE"
  • Embargoed: 18th August 2015 13:00
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  • Story Text: Well-wishers gathered on Monday (August 3) in Westfield, New Jersey, ahead of the burial of Bobbi Kristina Brown, the 22-year-old daughter of late singer Whitney Houston, who died last week, months after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub.
    Brown's burial, at the Fairview cemetery, was private and closed to the public, but well-wishers stood behind police barricades outside to pay their respects.
    "Just is support of the Houston family and I was here three years ago when Whitney Houston was buried here at the cemetery and just wanted to show support," said well-wisher Michael Tarashuk.
    "You know she was a year older than I was, you know, I mean she was trying to, like she said, create a ... go with her mother, you know, in the sense that she wanted to make her career and everything and she never had the chance to do that, you know, and tragically cut short unfortunately as it is. It's wasted talent in the sense that she didn't get a chance to do that," added Andre Mejia.
    Brown died on July 26 at a hospice, six months after suffering irreversible brain damage in a still unexplained incident at her Roswell, Georgia, home.
    She was found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub by her boyfriend, Nick Gordon, and a friend in January in an eerie echo of her mother's death. Whitney Houston was found drowned in a bathtub at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2012.
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