FILE – Cissy Houston performs at McDonald’s Gospelfest 2013, May 11, 2013, in Newark, N.J. Houston died Monday, October 7, 2024 in her New Jersey residence. She was 91. Houston is the mother of Whitney Houston. She was a Grammy-winning musician who performed with superstars like Elvis Presley and Aretha. She was 91. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP/File)
FILE – American gospel singer and writer Cissy Harris poses for a photograph in New York, Jan. 22, 2013. Houston, the mother to Whitney Houston, and a Grammy-winning musician who performed with superstars like Elvis Presley and Aretha Frankin, died in her New Jersey house on Monday, October 7, 2024. She was 91. (Photo by Dan Hallman/Invision/AP/File)
FILE – Singers Whitney Houston and Cissy Houston appeared at the “Keep A Child Alive Black Ball”, in New York, on September 30, 2010. Cissy, a Grammy-winning singer who performed with superstars like Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley, died in her New Jersey house on Monday, October 7, 2024. She was 91. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)