Dolores Hope Dies, radiant wife, the comedian Bob Hope died peacefully on Monday morning at the home in Toluca Lake, California, a family friend confirmed in humans. Was 102 and the theory of relativity was healthy until the past few months.
The former Dolores DeFina, born in the Bronx, singing in a nightclub in Manhattan known as Dolores Reade professional when arriving Bob Hope, after a performance in a Broadway show, went to the club with a dancer George Murphy. Hearing Reade sing "Only a Paper Moon," said Hope Murphy: "I will marry him." He did, February 19, 1934.
Lucille Ball, said: "The best thing was never Bob Hope married Dolores".
Bob and Dolores hope honeymoon in Europe and sailed home on the Queen Mary - the last trip before it was converted into a troop carrier for service during the Second World War. Hope, both a famous radio comedian began entertaining U.S. troops overseas for the USO - and his wife often travel with him to sleep on their coats and never complain of discomfort.
Giving up her career to raise their children - who had four: Tony, Linda, and Nora Kelly - Dolores has also been active in charitable organizations, an avid golfer (as her husband), an animal lover and a avid follower of the news. On the other hand, she and Bob had met every president and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin and Bill and Hillary Clinton. She considered herself a political independent.
While Bob traveled constantly, she kept adding to their home in Toluca Lake and Palm Springs (San Fernando Valley), prompting her husband to joke when he returned from a trip, "Hey, I ' I need a card. "
Despite having put his singing career on hold for 50 years, Dolores is when it was revived in the late '80s, releasing CDs of old standards and songs from Rainbow and Stars nightclub in New York and Rockefeller Center with his dear friend Rosemary Clooney. Both CD and singing engagement was critical hits.
Why has admitted that it paid to produce the CD itself, "but it's better than buying another gem," he laughed.
Devout Catholic, who was to have a martini, after Mass - Bob den home in Toluca Lake served as his private chapel - Dolores once asked Bob where he wanted to be buried. "Oh, surprise me," he said.
Bob Hope, who died in 2003, 100 years and is buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery. Dolores will be drawn next to him, and a private service for the family is scheduled for Friday.