Who is Tony Price from She's Come Undone and what is their importance?

Tony Price is Dolores' father. He left his family when Dolores was a child. Tony briefly lived with a woman named Donna, and the two operated a flower shop together. He later married again and was living with his third wife when he died. Tony and Dolores spent a week together just before he and Bernice divorced. For most of her life, Dolores blames Tony for the breakup of the marriage.