FILE - Cissy Houston performs during McDonald's Gospelfest 2013 on May 11, 2013 in Newark, N.J. Houston, the mother of Whitney Houston and a two-time Grammy winner who performed alongside superstar ...

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“Our hearts are filled with pain and sadness,” Pat Houston noted in her statement. “We lost the matriarch of our family.” Houston, also known as Emily Drinkard, had been living in hospice care at her ...

The event was held Wednesday to honor the late singer, who died in 2012 Paras Griffin/Getty Friends and family of the late Whitney Houston gathered Wednesday evening to pay tribute to the Queen of the ...