Late rock n' roll pioneer Little Richard will be buried at his alma mater.

The “Tutti Frutti” singer will be laid to rest at Oakwood University, an HBCU in Huntsville, Alabama, where he studied theology in the late 1950s. USA Today reported that the funeral will be held on Wednesday and will not be open to the public, according to Gerald Kibble, director of Oakwood Memorial Gardens.

“We think it’s a treasure,” Oakwood President Leslie Pollard told WHNT 19 News. “I feel like it’s really coming full circle. Even in his passing he’s actually coming back home.”

David Person, the Penniman family spokesman, said the musician had a special connection to Oakwood.

“There’s no doubt that Richard’s journey was influenced by his time at Oakwood,” said Person.

Huntsville City Councilman Will Culver said he will be presenting a resolution to the “Long Tall Sally” singer’s family on behalf of the mayor, council members and the city’s residents. Culver said he would like to honor Little Richard’s family as well as the person Richard was beyond the music.

“People get caught up just on the music that he produced, but he was more than that,” said Culver.

Pollard agreed with Culver’s sentiments and praised the artist, born Richard Wayne Penniman, for his generosity.

“Richard was an unusually kind person, very generous, willing to give. There’s a whole side of him that most people never ever got to see,” said Pollard. “Beyond the hits and beyond those songs and all of that, the person that those of us who knew him knew, that’s the side that we hope will come forward during his funeral.”

The music legend died on May 9 at 87 years old due to bone cancer. Dick Alen, the singer’s former agent, told CNN that Little Richard died with his brother and son by his side in Nashville, Tennessee. He said the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee had “been ill for a good while.”

Flowers and tokens of celebration will be accepted at the songwriter’s house until Monday, May 18 and will then be taken to the burial service, reports 13 WMAZ.

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