By | February 15 2012 8:25 AM

Whitney Houston's funeral is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 18, at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where Houston sang as a child with her mother Cissy Houston and her cousin Dionne Warwick. Whitney was a religious woman, who grew up in the church and had reportedly reconnected with her God before she died. The funeral will be a private, invite-only affair. One person who may not be attending is Houston's ex-husband, Bobby Brown.