Jennifer Hudson was joined by Fantasia Barrino at an invite-only funeral service held at Chicago’s Apostolic Church of God, for her mother, brother and nephew on Monday.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Barrino sang Your Grace and Mercy, and called the Hudsons “my family,” as she walked of stage and into the aisle where she took Jennifer’s hand and sang to the Oscar-winning actress.

“I think it healed Jennifer’s soul just then,” family friend Lisa Allison told the Chicago Tribune.

The family will be buried at Oak Woods Cemetery on the South Side, the paper reported.

The three hour service, which was attended by hundreds of mourners, comes ten days after Hudson’s mother, Darnell Donerson, 57, her brother, Jason, 29, and 7-year-old nephew Julian King were fatally shot with a .45 caliber semiautomatic.

William Balfour, the ex-husband of Hudson’s sister, Julia, is being held as a “person of interest” in the case. Chicago Police say the murders are “domestic-related.”

The newest issue of Us Weekly reports that Hudson family members didn’t take Balfour’s threats seriously.

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