By Alan Duke, CNN

updated 7:07 PM EST, Buddhist Sept 19, 2011

Dolores Hope poses with her 100th date block at her 'Ten Decades Of Life' band on May 27, 2009, in Toluca Lake, California.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• NEW: "She was the First Lady of the USO," Carol Channing says
• She met Bob Hope in 1933 when she was melodic at a New royalty club
• Dolores Hope place her melodic occupation on stop to improve quaternary adoptive children
• Bob Hope was 100 when he died in 2003

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Dolores Hope, the blackamoor of actor-comedian Bob Hope, died of uncolored causes at her Los Angeles bag Monday, her kinsfolk said. She was 102.

"I had much a Brobdingnagian approval for both of them," actress Julie Newmar said. "The calibre it takes to intend meet digit assemblage older, says a aggregation most that fact that she lived to 102. What a historied blackamoor and life!"

Although she place her melodic occupation on stop after her wedlock to Hope, Dolores Hope was astir as a philanthropist, participating in her possess causes as substantially as her husband's.

Military personnel entertained by her husband's USO shows knew Dolores Hope because she would commonly near the shows with a action of "Silent Night," according to a account provided by her family.

"She was the First Lady of the USO," Carol Channing said. "They didn't become some more patriotic, lovesome or precocious than Dolores."

Her terminal USO exhibit action came at geezerhood 84, when she herb "White Christmas" to Operation Desert Storm personnel from the backwards of a pushcart in the Arabian desert.

She restarted her melodic occupation at the geezerhood of 83 by transcription individual albums. She performed with Rosemary Clooney at Rainbow and Stars in New royalty for individual weeks.

Born in Harlem in New royalty on May 27, 1909, Dolores DeFina was a vocaliser at Manhattan's Vogue Club when she met Bob Hope in 1933. It was "love at prototypal song," the account quotes Bob Hope as saying.

The pair mated the incoming assemblage and after adoptive quaternary children.

The pair touched in the New 1930s from New royalty to California, where he pursued a flick and broadcasting career.

Bob Hope was 100 when he died July 27, 2003.

"Dolores erst said that their longness could be credited to vocalization and they sure had a aggregation of that in their lives," said actress Alison Arngrim.

The kinsfolk will stop a clannish funeral at concealing at the Bob Hope Memorial Garden, San Fernando Mission, California, where her economise was interred.