Cissy Houston, the two-time Grammy-awarded singer who handed down her pipes to her daughter, the late Whitney Houston, died Monday morning while under hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 91.

In a statement to The Associated Press, her daughter-in-law Pat Houston revealed that the time-honored singer passed away at home in New Jersey, not far from Fairview Cemetery & Arboretum in Westfield, where her famous daughter is buried.

“Our hearts are filled........

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