Editing Cissy Houston (section)

==Personal life and death==
Houston married twice. In 1955, she married Freddie Garland, with whom she gave birth to her first child, [[Gary Garland]] (b. 1957), an [[NBA]] basketball player and [[DePaul University]] Athletic Hall of Famer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gary Garland Houston Is Whitney Houston Brother|url=http://ghanapolitics.net/celebrity-news/gary-garland-houston-is-whitney-houston-brother.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120728213036/http://ghanapolitics.net/celebrity-news/gary-garland-houston-is-whitney-houston-brother.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 28, 2012|work=Celebrity Justice|publisher=Ghana Politics|access-date=April 24, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Cissy Houston: National Visionary">{{cite web|title=Cissy Houston|url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCwE4GdJdVRKKxX_7R6ytgQDq9PziY9YX|website=YouTube|access-date=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Gary Garland: NBA & ABA Stats|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/garlaga01.html|publisher=Basketball Reference|access-date=April 21, 2012}}</ref> Houston's marriage to Garland ended in divorce in 1957.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2024/10/singer-cissy-houston-grammy-winner-and-mother-of-whitney-houston-dies-at-91.html|title=Singer Cissy Houston, Grammy winner and mother of Whitney Houston, dies at 91|first=Amy |last=Kuperinsky|website=NJ.com|date=October 7, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.noise11.com/news/cissy-houston-dies-at-age-91-20241008|title=Cissy Houston Dies at Age 91|first=Paul|last=Cashmere|date=October 7, 2024|website=Noise11.com}}</ref>

Houston met John Russell Houston Jr. in 1957. The couple had two children: son Michael Houston (1961-) and daughter [[Whitney Houston]] (1963–2012), a singer who became a worldwide megastar.<ref name="auto"/> Cissy and John Houston married in 1964 and divorced in 1991.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/all-about-whitney-houston-parents-8772815|title=All About Whitney Houston’s Parents, John and Cissy Houston (and How She Wished She Could Have 'Saved' Her Daughter)|website=People.com|last=Frost|first=Ilana |date=February 11, 2025}}</ref>

In the late 1990s, when Houston's daughter Whitney began to struggle with drug addiction, Houston staged several interventions to get her into rehabilitation programs. On one occasion she obtained a court order and the assistance of two sheriffs to intervene, persuading Whitney to undertake treatment at Hope For Women Residential & Therapeutic Services in [[Atlanta]], Georgia.<ref>{{cite web|last=Winfrey|first=Oprah|title=Remembering Whitney: The Oprah Winfrey Interview|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyApXLqzCCw|publisher=Oprah Winfrey Network|access-date=April 21, 2010|page=40:02 minutes|format=video|date=September 2009|quote="I see the love and the passion that my mother had for me and she walks in with these sheriffs and she says 'I have a court junction here. Either you do it my way or we're just not going to do this at all. We're going to go on TV and you're going to retire and say you're going to give this up. Because this is not worth it. It's not worth it. And if you move Bobby (Brown), they're going to take you down. Don't you make one move. Let's go. Let's do this. I'm not losing you to the world. I'm not losing you to Satan. I want my daughter back. I'm not doing this. I want my daughter back. I want you back. I want to see that glow in your eyes, that light in your eyes. I want to see the child I raised. You weren't raised like this. And I'm not having it.'"}}</ref> In her 2013 book, ''Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped'', Cissy described a scene she encountered during a visit to Whitney and then-husband [[Bobby Brown]]'s home in 2005 where she saw the walls and door painted with big glaring eyes and strange faces. After having seen what she thought was several disturbing scenes, this led Cissy to return with law enforcement and perform an intervention.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/whitney-mom-recounts-singer-drug-article-1.1248861|author=Ginger Adams Otis|title=Cissy Houston details daughter Whitney's decline in new book|work = Daily News|date=January 26, 2013|access-date=December 25, 2017}}</ref> Whitney would attend recovery and rehabilitation programs.<ref>{{cite web|last=Winfrey|first=Oprah|title=Remembering Whitney: The Oprah Winfrey Interview|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyApXLqzCCw|publisher=Oprah Winfrey Network|access-date=April 21, 2010|format=video|date=September 2009}}</ref> 

On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston [[Death of Whitney Houston|died]] at the [[Beverly Hilton Hotel]] in [[Beverly Hills, California]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Moody|first=Nekesa Mumbi|title=Whitney Houston, superstar of records, films, dies|url=http://music.yahoo.com/news/whitney-houston-superstar-records-films-dies-005927033.html|agency=Associated Press|access-date=April 21, 2012}}</ref> After her daughter's death, Cissy expressed her distaste for the media's coverage of related events: "The media are awful. People have come from here and there, [and they] don't know what they're talking about," she said. "People I haven't seen in 20 years ... Here they come, [they] think they know everything, but that's not true. But God has His way of taking care of all of it, and I'm glad I know that."<ref>{{cite news|title=Whitney Houston Death: Cissy Houston Breaks Her Silence|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/03/whitney-houston-death-cissy-houston_n_1400385.html|publisher=Huffington Post|access-date=May 2, 2012|first=Brennan|last=Williams|date=April 3, 2012}}</ref> In November 2020, alongside her daughter-in-law, Pat, Houston accepted her daughter Whitney's induction into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] after she was voted in on her first ballot. During her acceptance speech on behalf of her late daughter, Houston said "I’m so very, very proud that Whitney’s being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She wanted to be something, not anything. She worked hard at it too."<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-11-09/whitney-houstons-mother-gets-emotional-during-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-induction|title=Whitney Houston's mother gets emotional during Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction|work=[[The Los Angeles Times]]|date=November 9, 2020|author=Laura Zornosa|accessdate=May 17, 2025}}</ref>

Cissy Houston died at her home in Newark on October 7, 2024, at the age of 91. She had been in [[hospice care in the United States|hospice care]] for [[Alzheimer's disease]].<ref>{{cite news|url = https://deadline.com/2024/10/cissy-houston-dead-1236109349/|title = Cissy Houston Dies: Legendary Gospel Singer, Backup For Elvis, Aretha, Bette & Jimi, Mother Of Whitney Was 91|last = Evans|first = Greg|date = October 7, 2024|accessdate = October 7, 2024|work = Deadline Hollywood}}</ref> She was survived by her two sons as well as six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/08/cissy-houston-obituary|title=Cissy Houston obituary|first=Richard|last=Williams|date=October 8, 2024|via=The Guardian}}</ref>