NEWARK, N.J. — Whitney Houston’s body was set to be flown home to New Jersey late Monday for a funeral to be held at week’s end, said two people who have spoken with her family.
Houston’s family raised the possibility of holding a wake Thursday and a funeral Friday at Newark’s Prudential Center, an arena that seats about 18,000 people.
The 48-year-old pop star was found dead in a bathtub in her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California on Saturday
. The Los Angeles coroner’s office said Houston’s body was released to the family late Monday morning. Authorities said that there were no indications of foul play and no obvious signs of trauma on Houston’s body but that it could be weeks before the coroner’s office completes toxicology tests that could establish the cause of death. The Associated Press
