NEW : ` ` She was the First Lady of the USO , '' Carol Channing says . She met Bob Hope in 1933 when she was singing at a New York club . The couple married the next year and later adopted four children . Dolores Hope put her singing career on hold to raise four adopted children . Bob Hope was 84 when he died in 2003 .
NEW : ` ` She was the First Lady of the USO , '' Carol Channing says . She met Bob Hope in 1933 when she was singing at a New York club . Dolores Hope put her singing career on hold to raise four adopted children . Bob Hope was 84 when he died in 2003 .