At what cemetery was Whitney Houston buried?

“At what cemetery was Whitney Houston buried? Fairview Cemetery.” Houston was buried at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey, on February 19, 2012, beside her father, John Russell Houston Jr.

The burial followed a large memorial service at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where Houston had sung in the church choir as a child. Her interment at Fairview was private, although fans and media gathered along the motorcade route and outside the cemetery. The cemetery is sometimes identified more fully as Fairview Cemetery & Arboretum.

Houston’s father had died in 2003 and was already buried there, making Fairview a family resting place. Her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, was later buried beside her mother at the same cemetery in 2015. Cissy Houston was also interred there after her death in 2024.

A common mix-up is confusing the funeral location with the burial site: Houston’s public funeral took place at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, but her burial occurred at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield. The cemetery is a non-sectarian, nonprofit site founded in 1868 and covering roughly 105 acres.