- Bobbi Kristina passed away at the age of 22 just six months after being discovered face-down in the tub at her townhouse in Roswell, Georgia
- Her death comes just over three years after her mother Whitney Houston passed away in 2012
- The service will take place at St. James United Methodist Church in Alpharetta on Saturday
- A list of celebrity guests are being invited but details are being kept a close secret by her aunt Pat Houston, who is a co-executor of her will
- Her body will be flown to New Jersey in Tyler Perry's private plane
- Investigators have confirmed they are treating the death as homicide - with Bobbi Kristina's boyfriend Nick Gordon a person of interest
The funeral of Bobbi Kristina Brown will be held on Saturday morning in Atlanta and her body will be flown to New Jersey for burial at the spot where her mother Whitney Houston was laid to rest.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner has released Bobbi Kristina's body and it is currently at a funeral home in preparation for burial. The autopsy was performed yesterday, but results may not be disclosed for weeks.
The service for the 22-year-old, who died on Sunday evening, will take place at St. James United Methodist Church in Alpharetta at 11am.
A list of celebrity guests are being invited but details are being kept a close secret by her aunt Pat Houston, who is a co-executor of her will.
Bobbi Kristina’s grandmother, the Gospel singer Cissy Houston, will attend a second memorial service at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey
She is currently compiling a list of mourners and asking for ‘rsvps’ within 24 hours.
It is likely to include music supremo Tyler Perry who has been supporting both families and a host of other celebrities who have worked in the entertainment business with Bobbi Kristina’s parents.
Perry’s private jet is standing by to airlift her body to Newark, New Jersey for burial at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield after the service in Georgia.
Meanwhile both the Districy Attorney and the police are treating the death as suspected homicide. Sources told TMZ that Bobbi Kristina's boyfriend, Nick Gordon, continues to be a person of interest. She was found submerged in her bath tub at the couple's home in January.
The funeral will be in Alpharetta, Ga. where Bobbi Kristina lived before she went into a coma
Bobbi Kristina’s grandmother, the singer Cissy Houston, is due to attend a memorial service at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark NJ, where she and regularly joins the congregation as she did last Sunday.
It is the same church where the service for Whitney Houston was conducted in February 2012 before her interment at Westfield.
The octogenarian last saw Bobbi Kristina at the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, a fortnight after she was found unconscious in a tub at her home on January 31.
Bobbi Kristina’s father Bobby Brown is liaising over details for Saturday with Pat , who is the wife of Whitney’s brother Gary, although there have been disagreements regarding certain aspects of the service and those invited.
Whitney Houston and daughter Bobbi Kristina at a pre-Grammy gala in 2011 - a year before Whitney's death
The headstone at the grave of singer Whitney Houston, at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, N.J., about 20 miles west of New York. The 48-year-old pop music queen died Feb. 11, 2012, in Beverly Hills
Tyler Perry’s private jet is standing by to airlift Bobbi Kristina's body to Newark, New Jersey for burial at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield after the service in Georgia
There is further tension over what will happen to the estimated $20 million fortune left by Bobbi Kristina’s mother.
She entrusted the carrying out of the will to senior members of the Houston family and decreed her only daughter should inherit the bulk of the fortune when she turned 30.
When she turned 21, she received a 10 per cent payment with a further 30 per cent payment due if she had reached 25.
A series of protracted legal battles are likely with Bobby Brown arguing for part of the estate as his daughter’s legal guardian. But the terms of it are said to favor Cissy and Whitney’s two brothers Gary and Michael.
A source said: ‘ Once the funeral is over, there are going to be lots more arguments and legal battles. It hasn’t even started yet.'
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