R.I.P. Dolores Hope

Dolores Hope, the widow of Bob Hope, died of natural causes at her La home today. She was 102. Born in Harlem in NY on May 27, 1909, Dolores DeFina will be a singer at Manhattan’s Style Club when she met Bob Hope in 1933. The happy couple married the year after after which adopted four children. She frequently supported her husband on his USO shows. At 84 she sang “White Christmas” to Operation Desert Storm troops in the rear of the truck inside the Saudi desert. Although she put her singing career on hold after her marriage that you should she labored for numerous charitable groups. From 1969 to 1976 she offered as leader in the Eisenhower Clinic in Palm Desert, Calif. Funeral services will probably be private.