Hope family spokesman Harlan Boll said Hope died Monday of natural causes at home in Los Angeles. He did not elaborate.
Bob Hope died at age 100 on July 27, 2003.
At her 100th birthday party, Hope appeared little-changed: Her white hair was richly coiffed, her skin smooth and her voice deep and warm.
Hope mused, "I thought it was going to be just another birthday."
In 1933, when Bob Hope was appearing in his first Broadway show, "Roberta," his friend and fellow cast member George Murphy persuaded him to visit the Vogue Club to "hear a pretty girl sing." She was Dolores Reade, a dark beauty whose singing of "It's Only a Paper Moon" entranced the young comedian.
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Hope returned every night and soon he was escorting her to her hotel after her shows. They married on Feb. 19, 1934, and she joined his vaudeville act. Then she retired.
"Bob was the hot thing in New York then," she said in 1997. "I thought I'd better stay home and take care of Bob."
When they moved to Hollywood in 1938 for the beginning of his film career, Dolores stayed home and devoted her time to raising the four children the Hopes adopted: Linda, Anthony, Kelly and Nora.
"I had such a huge admiration for both of them," said actress Julie Newmar. "The quality it takes to get just one year older, says a lot about that fact that she lived to 102."
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