Houston laid to rest next to her father

Whitney Houston was laid to rest yesterday at a private ceremony in New Jersey.

Fans and onlookers gathered along the route the motorcade took from the Newark funeral home to the cemetery about 30km away in Westfield, where Houston was buried next to her father, who died in 2003.

The 48-year-old died on Feb 11 in California, hours before she was to attend a pre-Grammy Awards party. No cause of death has been determined.