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The gospel singer was born in Newark, New Jersey, as Emily Drinkard on Sept. 30, 1933, and she later took the professional name Cissy Houston. Cissy Houston, singer and mother of Whitney Houston ...
Emily Drinkard was born on September 30, 1933 in Newark, New Jersey to Delia Mae "Dee Dee" (née McCaskill) and Nicholas "Nitch" Drinkard, the youngest of eight children. [1] [2] [3] Houston was the granddaughter of a black landowner in Blakely, Georgia, who later shared the land he owned with Houston's father Nitch during a time when it was unusual for black people to have large landholdings.
Cissy Houston, mother of the late Whitney Houston and an iconic gospel singer herself, has died. She was 91. Houston died at her home in New Jersey on Monday, Oct. 7 while under hospice care for ...
Cissy Houston's family is "devastated" by her death, a source tells PEOPLE.. Cissy, mother of the late Whitney Houston and a legendary gospel singer herself, died at 91 on Monday, Oct. 7 at her ...
The Drinkard Singers were an American gospel singing group, most successful in the late 1950s, renowned for being the first gospel group to perform at Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival and the first gospel group signed to a major record label, recording and releasing the album, A Joyful Noise, on RCA Records in 1958.
Kathy Garver (born Kathleen Marie Garver; December 13, 1945) [1] is an American actress most remembered for having portrayed the teenaged orphan, Catherine "Cissy" Davis, on the popular 1960s CBS sitcom, Family Affair.
Cissy, the grandmother of ... Bobbi died on July 26, 2015, at age 22, with the cause of her death ruled as a combination of drowning and drug intoxication. Cissy Houston Dies. Cissy Houston in 2017.
Charlene "Michael" Hyatt (born February 17, 1970) is a British-born American actress. Before her work in film and television, she performed on stages throughout the United States, particularly in Ragtime on Broadway. [2]