Delores Hope

Dolores Hope spent most of her life giving to others: her husband, Bob , her children Linda, Tony, Kelly and Nora, her four grandchildren, and numerous charitable causes. As a five-year-old growing up in the Bronx, Dolores DeFina knew she wanted to be a singer. Dolores soon left the nightclub circuit to join her husband in his vaudeville act. The couple toured the major stages together until Dolores exchanged her professional singing career for a role as mother, singing lullabies to her children. In the late 1940s, Dolores returned to the stage when she began helping her husband entertain U.S. troops around the world.