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Dolores Hope

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Dolores Hope was a singer, who is best known as a philanthropist and the widow of the legendary Bob Hope.

She was born Dolores DeFina on May 27, 1909 in New York City and raised in The Bronx. She is of Italian and Irish descent.

As a singer she was known professionally as Dolores Reade. She married Bob Hope in 1934 and they were married for 69 years until his death at age 100. They had 4 adopted children, one of whom, the eldest, Anthony, pre-deceased his mother.

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