Whitney Houston was laid to rest today in a private burial before family and close friends near her birthplace in Newark, N.J., more than a week after her sudden death shocked the world. Last week, she was found underwater in a bathtub, but the exact cause of death is undetermined.  Fans lined the edge of street barriers as the procession drove by under tight security in Newark, New Jersey to the Forest Lawn cemetery in nearby Westfield where Houston’s body was buried next to her father. The New Hope Baptist Church in Newark was where Whitney honed her vocal abilites as a girl, singing in the choir with her mother Cissy Houston, a backup singer for Aretha Franklin.