February 19, 2013 It sounds almost too ridiculous to be real. Unfortunately, a Fenton area family says it is real for them. Here's what happened.
When the Westboro Baptist Church announced their intention to target the funeral of Texas A&M alum Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale, his fellow Aggies didn’t take it sitting down.
In fact, with a little help of Facebook, more than 500 students at Texas A&M showed up at the burial in College Park, Texas.
March 1, 2012 Barbara Johnson is calling for the Rev. Marcel Guarnizo of St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Md. to be relieved of his duties.
Johnson has been married to her partner for two years, and when she attempted to take Communion at her mother's funeral Mass, the priest blocked the cup with his hand, and called her a sinner in front of the church. He left the altar during her eulogy, then walked out on the graveside burial ceremony.
Whitney Houston may have had one of the most recognizable voices in pop music, which brought her great success, fame and fortune. Apparently, the singer’s financial resources may have dwindled down to almost nothing, since her family sold footage of her celebrity-attended funeral to a variety of global media outlets.
Even the Queen of Soul gets sick sometimes. Aretha Franklin cancelled her performance at the funeral of goddaughter Whitney Houston.
When Bobby Brown left ex wife Whitney Houston‘s funeral early, massive speculation arose as to why: was he banned by her family? Did he simply not want to stay?
The world has its answer — at least one side of it, anyway. Brown released a statement explaining his early exit from Houston’s heartwrenching memorial.
“The song ‘I Will Always Love You’ wasn’t supposed to be in the movie,” Kevin Costner revealed in a moving speech for his costar in ‘The Bodyguard,’ Whitney Houston at her funeral. “The first choice was going to be ‘What Becomes of a Broken Heart?’” he said. “So what becomes of our broken hearts?”
They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but this is a case where we wish it didn't apply. In a rather sad episode after Whitney Houston‘s death, her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, allegedly couldn't handle the situation, and her solution was to get high following her mother’s funeral.
Chaka Khan is not pleased with Clive Davis. The original ‘I’m Every Woman’ singer is furious that Davis continued on with his pre-Grammy party following the news of Whitney Houston‘s death.
Aretha Franklin will be performing at Whitney Houston‘s invite-only funeral service on Feb. 18, Entertainment Tonight is reporting. Record label executive Clive Davis, who helped guide the careers of both singers as the president of Arista Records for a quarter-century, personally requested to have Franklin perform, and the Queen of Soul found it impossible to turn down the invitation.
February 8, 2012 As morbid as it sounded to me at first, I think some funeral homes may be on to something. It came to my attention this morning that there is a funeral parlor in the UK that streams funerals on the web. When I did further research this morning, I discovered that there are a few here in the good ol' USA that do it to.
Eleven-year-old Jared Flanders willfully disobeyed his father and left his Massachusetts home one day last week without an accompanying adult. But Jared had a good reason to defy his dad, since his objective was to attend a funeral for a firefighter killed during the line of duty.
