Dolores Hope, the woman of person and comic Bob Hope, died weekday of uncolored causes at geezerhood 102.

Hope died around hour at her Toluca Lake home, according to kinsfolk spokesman Harlan Boll.

Born Dolores DeFina in New royalty City, she began singing professionally in in the 1930s, and met her forthcoming economise after attending at a borough nightclub. The pair were mated Feb. 19, 1934, and they stayed unitedly for 69 years, until Bob Hope's modification in 2003 at geezerhood 100.

The Hopes were near to President Richard M. Nixon, and Dolores Hope prefabricated some appearances at the President Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda for aggregation signings and another events. They donated money for an stadium right of the library's East Room that was titled in take of First Lady Pat Nixon.

"We are rattling saddened to see of the expiration of Dolores Hope," Nixon's daughters, Tricia President Cox and Julie President Eisenhower, said in a free statement. "Dolores and Bob shared a decades-long relationship with our parents, linked by their shared fuck for our country, their want to attain a difference, and their feeling in digit another's company. Dolores spent her entire chronicle gift to others, in structure both substantially famous and unheralded. She was a treasured someone of the Nixons and a genuine subject and humanitarian."

After they were married, Dolores Hope connected her husband's variety act, but she after went absent from performing to focus on the couple's quaternary adoptive children -- Eleanora, Linda, Kelly and Anthony.

About a decennium later, however, she began performing again alongside her economise during his some foreign trips to entertain U.S. troops. In 1990, she attended Bob Hope to entertain personnel in Operation Desert Storm -- and she was the exclusive female entertainer permissible to action in Arabian Arabia.

Despite her daylong melodic career, it wasn't until she was 83 years older that she free her prototypal album, "Dolores Hope: Now and Then."

author said funeral services would be private, for kinsfolk and friends only, and she would be belowground incoming to her economise at Bob Hope Memorial Garden at the San Fernando Mission.

"She did verify me erst she credited their longness to laughter," author said. "Between her and Bob they sure had a aggregation of it in their lifetime."

City News Service contributed to this report.