for with every foreign shipment marked robert carey and company, washington diminished his fortune and the independence that he associated with wealth. he found himself increasingly trapped in a transatlantic card game played with marked cards. he ordered busts of his military heroes, julius caesar, alexander the great, sweden's charles the xii and frederick the great. offered him homer and plato instead. he said no thanks. ill-fitting clothes dramatized his dependence on distant tailors while playing havoc with his need for neatness and order. farm apartments would arrive with parts missing, ships' holds were devoid of the toys promised martha's daughter patsy. self-sufficiency governed washington's politics. as an innovator, he replaced soil-depleting tobacco with wheat and corn. he experimented with a variety of untested crops from the teeming potomac he harvested shad, perch, bass and perch. some for his own table, the rest salted down to vary the corn bread and buttermilk diet of his slaves. the washingtons used only locally produced cheese or port. mt. vernon manufactured its own

. ♪ isn't she lovely >> reporter: janet jackson, mariah carey and alicia keys, and from gospel, bebe winans, who spoke to deborah robertshe honor of saying good-bye to the voice. >> i'm going to try to sing a song. that's what we'll salute. we'll salute nippy. and we believe we'll meet up with nippy again. >> reporter: the service will be streamed live on the internet. security is expected to be heavy with streets cordoned off for six blocks in every direction. conducting the service will be cissy houston's pastor, /* marvin winans said the family wanted a church funeral. not a big public memorial. >> i don't think this was a matter of public or private, as it was, this is my daughter, and we want to do this with dignity. we don't want to have a parade. we loved her when she was nippy in new jersey. >> reporter: despite bad blood between houston's family and her ex-husband, bobby brown, sources tell abc news, he will be there to comfort the couple's daughter, bobbi kristina, who, following her mother's death, collapsed twice and is now said to be doing better. and abc news has been told that bobby brown, who performed t