The "Celebration of Life" for Aretha is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. at Greater Grace Temple. It is scheduled to conclude at 3 p.m., but is expected to last much longer. Ariana Grande, Tyler Perry, Bill Clinton, Faith Hill and Jesse Jackson are among those speaking and performing. • Watch the funeral live stream here Bishop Charles H. Ellis III will officiate with Rev. Robert Smith Jr. as the co-officiant. Greater Grace Temple has hosted several other high-profile funerals. Rosa Parks' funeral was held there on Nov. 2, 2005. The mother of the civil rights died on Oct. 24, 2005, in Detroit at age 92. Her funeral was scheduled for three hours but lasted more than seven hours. Coleman Young's funeral was also held there on Dec. 5, 1997. The former Detroit mayor died of complications from emphysema on Nov. 29, 1997, at age 79. Aretha Franklin funeral schedule 8:30 - 9:50 a.m. — Viewing — Recorded Songs by Aretha 9:30-9:50 a.m. — Musical Prelude — Aretha Franklin Orchestra 9:50-10:00 a.m. — Lighting of Candles — Swanson Funeral Home, Inc. (The seven candles at the head represent the seven stars, which are the angels. The seven candle sticks at the front to represent the seven churches. We feel that we are living in the days of Revelation. Rev. 1:20) 10:00-10:20 a.m. — Processional — Clergy, Ministers and Family 10:20-10:25 a.m. — Prayer of Comfort — Dr. E.L. Branch, Pastor, Third New Hope Church 10:25-10:40 a.m. — Scripture of Comfort: 10:25 a.m. — Old Testament — Bishop T.D. Jakes, Potter’s House, Dallas, TX 10:30 a.m. — New Testament — Pastor Solomon Kinloch, Triumph Church 10:35 a.m. — The 23rd Psalm — Bishop P.A. Brooks, Pastor, New St. Paul Tabernacle Church 10:40-10:45 a.m. — Musical Tribute — Faith Hill 10:45-11 a.m. — Remarks: 10:45 a.m. — Mike Duggan — Mayor, City of Detroit 10:50 a.m. — Brenda Jones — City Council President 10:55 a.m. — Governor Rick Snyder, State of Michigan 11-11:05 a.m. — Musical Tribute — Ariana Grande 11:05-11:10 a.m. — Musical Tribute — The Clark Sisters 11:10-11:15 a.m. — Acknowledgements and Condolences — Barbara Sampson 11:15-11:20 a.m. — Musical Tribute — The Williams Brothers & Vanessa Bell Armstrong 11:20-11:40 a.m. — Family Reflections — Vaughn, Cristal, Victorie & Jordan Franklin 11:40-11:45 a.m. — Family Musical Tribute — Edward Franklin 11:45-11:50 a.m. — Obituary— Sabrina Owens 11:50-11:55 a.m. — Musical Tribute — Alice McAllister Tillman 11:55-12 p.m. — Musical Tribute — Audrey DuBois Harris 12-12:15 p.m. — Personal Remarks: 12 p.m. — Eric Holder, Former U.S. Attorney General 12:05 p.m. — Former President, William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton 12:15-12:19 p.m. — Musical Tribute — Pastor Shirley Caesar and Tasha Cobbs-Leonard 12:19-12:36 p.m. — Personal Reflections: 12:19 p.m. — Greg Mathis, Retired Judge, 36th District Court, Detroit, MI 12:23 p.m. — Brenda Lawrence, State Representative, 14th Congressional District 12:27 p.m. — Rev. Donald L. Parsons, Logos Assembly Church, Chicago, IL 12:31 p.m. — Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder, National Action Network 12:36-12:41 p.m. — Musical Tribute — Chaka Khan 12:41-12:51 p.m. — Musical Tribute — Ron Isley 12:51 p.m. — Rev. Jesse Jackson, Founder/President Rainbow P.U.S.H. Coalition 1 p.m. — Dr. William J. Barber, II, Pastor, Greenleaf Christian Church, Goldsborough N.C. 1:05 p.m. — Rev. James Holley, Retired Pastor, New Light Missionary Baptist Church 1:10- 1:15 p.m. — Musical Tribute — Fantasia Barrino-Taylor 1:15-1:30 p.m. — Personal Reflections: 1:15 p.m. — Tyler Perry 1:17 p.m. — Cicely Tyson, Actress 1:20 p.m. — Clive Davis, Chief Creative Officer, Sony Music 1:25 p.m. — Smokey Robinson, Recording Artist 1:30-1:34 p.m. — Musical Tribute — Bishop Paul Morton and Yolanda Adams 1:34-1:53 p.m. — Personal Reflections: 1:34 p.m. — Mildred Gaddis, Radio Personality 1:38 p.m. — Isaiah Thomas, Former NBA Player, Detroit Pistons 1:42 p.m. — Ron Moten, Personal Friend, Franchise Owner, McDonald’s Restaurants 1:48 p.m. — Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University 1:53- 2 p.m. — Musical Tribute — Bishop Marvin Sapp and the Aretha Franklin Celebration Choir 2-2:05 p.m. — Sermonic Selection — Jennifer Hudson 2:05-2:35 p.m. — Eulogy — Rev. Jasper Williams, Jr., Pastor, Salem Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA 2:35-2:45 p.m. — Musical Tribute — Stevie Wonder joined by National Artists 2:45-3 p.m. — Committal and Recessional — Jennifer Holliday and the Aretha Franklin Celebration Choir More Aretha Franklin coverage President Obama won't be at Aretha Franklin's funeral, but he sent a letter Chene Park concert honors Aretha Franklin White doves released after Aretha Franklin's public viewing When Detroit says goodbye: Historic funerals in the Motor City Contact Amy Huschka at ahuschka@freepress.com or follow on Twitter at @aetmanshuschka.<doc-sep>Atlanta's Jasper Williams Jr., the pastor of Salem Baptist Church, will deliver the eulogy as he did for her father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin, at his funeral in 1984. Oh yeah, and there is also Stevie Wonder. RELATED: How Aretha Franklin used her voice to ‘deliver music for social justice’ Franklin’s Friday funeral at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, will culminate four days of mourning and events to honor the singer, who died Aug. 16 after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. DETROIT, MI - AUGUST 29: Pamela Bolton poses for pictures next to posters of Aretha Franklin created by artist Mark Gaines outside of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History where the Queen of Soul lies in repose on August 29, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Franklin's funeral will be held Friday at Greater Grace Temple. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Credit: Scott Olson Credit: Scott Olson RELATED: How Aretha Franklin’s ‘Amazing Grace’ conquered gospel The 76-year-old, 18-time Grammy winner was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. In 2005, President George W. Bush awarded her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Detroit has become accustomed to grand funerals to honor pillars of the black community. In 2005, Rosa Parks was remembered in a star-studded and emotional funeral that lasted more than seven and a half hours and featured more than 50 dignitaries, including a former president (Clinton), five U.S. senators, two planeloads of members of Congress, several top black religious leaders and the heads of every major civil rights organization in America. Aretha Franklin sings during the funeral service for Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday, Oct. 24, at the age of 92. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) Credit: CARLOS OSORIO Credit: CARLOS OSORIO Speakers included the Rev. Joseph Lowery, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, Bishop T.D. Jakes and Jesse Jackson, who delivered the eulogy. At the funeral, one senator promised to get a statue placed in the United States Capitol or Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery Bus in 1955 launched the modern civil rights movement. "When the history of this county is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small and quiet woman whose name will be remembered," said then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). "Long after the names of presidents and senators have been forgotten. She laid the foundation for a nation to live up to its creed.” In 2013, President Obama presided over a ceremony unveiling a nine-foot statue of a sitting Parks in National Statuary Hall. Aretha Franklin gave a special tribute in song. Atlanta is also no stranger to grand funerals. In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral and burial took six hours. In 2006, more than 10,000 people crammed into New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia to say a final farewell to Coretta Scott King. More than 40 people sang or spoke at Coretta Scott King’s eight-hour service, including then President George W. Bush and former presidents, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter; Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.); Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, former Mayor Andrew Young and poet Maya Angelou also spoke. It was also at Coretta Scott King’s funeral where Joseph Lowery, with President Bush sitting behind him, blasted the president about the war in Iraq, telling the mourners and the world: "We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction. But Coretta knew, and we knew, there were weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance, poverty abound. For war billions more, but no more for the poor." 060207 - LITHONIA, GA -- The funeral service for Coretta Scott King, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was held Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006 at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. Rev. Joseph Lowery (cq) gets a laugh from former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, after he honored King. Left is Pres. George Bush and his wife, Laura. (RENEE HANNANS HENRY/AJC staff) Credit: RENEE HANNANS HENRY Credit: RENEE HANNANS HENRY Aretha Franklin did not sing at King’s funeral. But like she had done in 1968 for Martin Luther King Jr., she sang at an earlier memorial service. Franklin’s funeral will be invitation only, but the public will be able to view it from a large screen outside Greater Grace Temple. Otherwise, there are several options to stream the services. The Word Network, a global religious broadcasting network, will air the service beginning at 10 a.m. through the network's website. The Associated Press will live stream the funeral on its website. Also, the Bounce TV network and Brown Sugar streaming service are partnering with Detroit affiliate WXYZ-TV to air and stream local coverage, including an hour-long special, "Celebrating the Queen of Soul," at 9 a.m. Visit www.bouncetv.com for channel listings and www.brownsugar.com for more information. Nationally, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News will air portions of the ceremony.<doc-sep>Loading the player... The official program for Aretha Franklin’s funeral service has been released and the almost six-hour event will be full of tributes to the Queen of Soul. The service will be the last event after a four-day celebration of the icon’s life . The events included two days where the public could visit Franklin’s body laying in repose, and a tribute concert. The Queen of Soul’s funeral will start at 9:30 a.m. Friday at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. The event, which is only open to family and friends, will include prayers, bible readings, remarks from political dignitaries, along with personal remarks from friends and musical legends. It will also feature musical selections that would be the envy of any stage.The funeral includes an all-star lineup of performers like Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia and Shirley Caesar. Also slated to perform are Ron Isley, Chaka Khan, Yolanda Adams, Marvin Sapp, the Clark Sisters, Jennifer Holliday and Franklin’s son, Edward Franklin. Confirmed speakers so far include former President Bill Clinton, Smokey Robinson, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Clive Davis.The Rev. Jasper Williams Jr., pastor of Atlanta’s Salem Baptist Church, will deliver the eulogy. The funeral is scheduled to end at 3 p.m. but could very likely run longer. The Friday service will be made available for viewing live online and on television . It will also be live-streamed on the official ESSENCE Facebook page and on ESSENCE.com. Read the full program below: FINAL Program for Service by Clickon Detroit on Scribd<doc-sep>
Though Aretha Franklin’s funeral is a private ceremony for family and friends, fans of the late Queen of Soul can watch it live via TV and livestream starting at 7 a.m. PDT Friday. The Greater Grace Temple in Detroit will livestream the “homegoing ceremony” on its website, greatergrace.org, from the start of the remembrance until it ends around noon PDT. If you’re watching on TV, Fox News and MSNBC will cover the event, and CNN will have a crew there and plans to air the ceremony around other news, according to Detroit Free Press. HLN, or Headline News, will air the funeral live and continue coverage throughout the day. Watch Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin’s memorial live » ABC News’ live feed will cover at least the first two hours of Franklin’s funeral, the Free Press reported. BET Networks said Thursday that it will carry the funeral “in its entirety” on BET, BET Her and BET.com. NPR Music will have an audio livestream, and SiriusXM’s Soul Town radio (Channel 49) will broadcast the funeral live in its entirety.. Afterward, the Aretha Franklin Tribute Channel — as Soul Town has been known since Aug. 16 — will take calls from listeners nationwide who want to pay respects and share stories and memories of Franklin until 3 p.m. PDT. As far as what viewers can see during the service, Ariana Grande was a late addition to the long list of talent who will perform in five- to 20-minute increments around speakers who will include Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, former President Bill Clinton, filmmaker Tyler Perry, actress Cicely Tyson, musician Smokey Robinson and more. The event is meticulously scheduled right down to the minute; click here for the official program. Previously announced entertainers include Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson, Faith Hill, Ron Isley, Chaka Khan, Jennifer Holliday and Fantasia Barrino-Taylor. Wonder and Hudson both sang at Michael Jackson’s funeral in 2009. Franklin herself sang at Rosa Parks’ funeral at Greater Grace in 2005. The list of performers hardly stops there, though; Franklin lived in the world of gospel as well as soul. Aretha Franklin dies at 76: Remembering the Queen of Soul » Rounding out the list are Yolanda Adams, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Shirley Caesar, the Clark Sisters, Tasha Cobbs-Leonard, Audrey DuBois Harris, Marvin Sapp, Alice McAllister Tillman and the Williams Brothers, plus Franklin’s son Edward Franklin, the Aretha Franklin Orchestra and the Aretha Franklin Celebration Choir. Grande and Franklin met at the “Women of Soul” event at the White House in 2014, the younger singer’s rep told the Detroit News. Grande also paid tribute to Franklin with a performance of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” after Franklin died. Franklin’s family has been hard at work putting the service together since her death Aug. 16 from pancreatic cancer at age 76. “I know people think two weeks is a long time to arrange all this, but it’s really not with all that has to be done,” niece Sabrina Owens told CNN. “Two weeks seems like a lot of time, but you need that time in order to do this right.” The family also needed time on its own to mourn Franklin, who lay in repose Tuesday and Wednesday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, wearing different outfits, including a bold red ensemble the first day and a sheer, light-blue dress the next. On Thursday, her body was moved to the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, where her father had been a minister. She was dressed in sparkling rose gold from head to toe for the viewing there. “I know the world lost the Queen, but her sons lost their mother, her nieces and nephews lost their aunt …,” Owens told CNN, noting that it would be “very difficult” after the ceremony ends and all the people have gone away. “[W]e lost a family member and we haven’t had a chance to come together as a group to truly realize that we have lost one who loved us so much and was so loyal to us,” she said. The Associated Press contributed to this report. cdz@latimes.com @theCDZ on Twitter and Instagram