Clive Davis said of the late singer, “You wait for a voice like that for a lifetime. You wait for a face like that, a smile like that, a presence like that for a lifetime. And when one person embodies it all, well it takes your breath away.”

Kevin Costner, Houston’s 1992 co-star in The Bodyguard said, “Whitney returns home today to the place where it all began, and I urge us all, inside and outside, across the nation and around the world to dry our tears, suspend our sorrow – and perhaps our anger – just long enough, just long enough to remember the sweet miracle of Whitney.”Costner continued, “Whitney, if you could hear me now, I would tell you, you weren’t just good enough, you were great. You set the bar so high that professional singers, your own colleagues, they don’t want to sing that little country song. What would be the point? Now, the only ones who sing your songs are young girls like you, who are dreaming of being you some day.”

“And so to you, Bobbi Kristina and to all those young girls who are dreaming that dream, that are maybe thinking, are they good enough? I think Whitney would tell you, ‘Guard your bodies, guard the precious miracle of your own life, and then sing your hearts out,’ knowing that there’s a lady in heaven who is making God himself wonder how he created something so perfect. So off you go, Whitney, off you go. Escorted by an army of angels to your heavenly father, and when you sing before him, don’t worry… you’ll be good enough.”

After the memorial service was completed, the singer was taken to her final resting place 15 miles away at the Fairview Cemetery in Westfield.

Watch some of the moving moments of the funeral below: