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Bobbi Kristina buried next to mother Whitney in N.J.

Maria Puente
USA TODAY
Hearse containing Bobbi Kristina Brown's casket arrives at Fairview Cemetery on August 3, 2015 in Westfield, N.J.

The tragedy of Whitney Houston and Bobbi Kristina Brown, the mother-and-daughter who died too young, culminated Monday in Bobbi Kristina's burial next to her mom in a New Jersey cemetery as her grieving, feuding families watched.

The gold hearse carrying the casket of Bobbi Kristina, whose funeral was Saturday in Georgia, left a funeral home in Newark and arrived at the Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, N.J., on Monday around midday.

The hearse was followed by two SUVs carrying relatives, including her father, Bobby Brown, her maternal grandmother, Cissy Houston, and her mother's cousin, singer Dionne Warwick, according to the Associated Press.

Police closed the road leading to the cemetery. About a dozen people gathered outside the gates to catch a glimpse of the hearse.

Although it was a private service, fans were able to follow the proceedings on Twitter, and to comment.

Bobbi Kristina died July 26 in a Georgia hospice, almost six months after she fell into unconsciousness in a bathtub in a still-mysterious incident at her Georgia townhouse on Jan. 31. She was 22.

Cissy Houston (L) at funeral service for Bobbi Kristina Brown at the Whigham Funeral Home on August 3, 2015 in Newark, N.J.

Before the burial, there was a service at the Whigham Funeral Home in Newark. It is the same funeral home that handled arrangements three years ago for her mother, Whitney Houston, who died in a bathtub at a Beverly Hills hotel the night before the Grammys.

Dionne Warwick (l) at Whigham Funeral Home to attend a service for Bobbi Kristina Brown on August 3, 2015 in Newark.

The funeral home declined to comment but Bobbi Kristina was to be buried next to her mother.

Bobbi Kristina's funeral in Alpharetta, Ga., was briefly disrupted when her aunt, Leolah Brown, sister of her father Bobby Brown, erupted angrily during an eulogy by her maternal aunt, Pat Houston, and had to be escorted out by security.

She made a beeline for the media waiting outside the church and made it clear that the tension between some members of the Houston family and some members of the Brown family is not over now that Bobbi Kristina is gone.

"It's just getting started," Brown warned reporters. "I told (Houston) that Whitney is going to haunt her from the grave."

Leolah Brown has been ranting against Pat Houston in public and on her Facebook page for weeks, accusing Whitney's sister-in-law and former manager of various "evil" deeds and of using Bobbi Kristina's funeral to add to her personal foundation's coffers.

The Houston family's various spokeswomen have declined for months to comment about anything having to do with feuding among Bobbi Kristina's maternal and paternal relatives. But in any case Leolah Brown has offered no evidence of misdeeds other than her own angry comments.

As if that were not enough for grieving Bobby Brown, his wife, Alicia Etheredge, who gave birth a few weeks ago, suffered a seizure at their hotel and had to be rushed to a local hospital, although she had recovered enough to walk in unassisted when she arrived, according to TMZ and the Daily Mail.

 Contributing: The Associated Press, The Asbury Park Press