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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/169960453/rose-mofford: accessed ), memorial page for Rose Perica Mofford (10 Jun 1922–15 Sep 2016), Find a Grave Memorial ID 169960453, citing Saint Francis Catholic Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.
Rose Mofford is buried at Saint Francis Catholic Cemetery in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2017, a new grave marker was unveiled for Mofford's grave, which includes among other things images of her meeting Pope John Paul II in 1987 and Mother Teresa in 1989; those meetings were some of her favorite times as governor.
Sep 15, 2016 · Rose Mofford, Arizona's first female governor, died Sept. 15, 2016, according to multiple news sources. She was 94. Former Mofford spokeswoman and longtime friend Athie Hardt said Mofford...
- June 10, 1922
- September 15, 2016
- A Place with Her Family
- A Governor and Her Rolodexes
- '...You Belonged to Her'
- Honesty, Integrity, A Sense of Humor
- Friends For 70 Years
- Friend Proposes Highway Name
Mofford was 94 when she died Sept. 15. Her family and friends had held a public memorial service last Oct. 30 at the Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix. Thousands of people attended, including six Arizona governors. She had been buried Sept. 28 in a private service attended by 30 family members and close friends. The temporary grave marker was a rectangle ...
It was already hot on Friday morning when the Rev. Daniel Sullivan addressed the dozen or so friends and family at the small service to unveil the new grave marker. Sullivan spoke of the three things most important to Mofford — her roots, her religion and her Rolodex. She had said it so often that the people gathered said those words along with him...
When Mofford attended events, she would be the last one to leave, making sure she met everyone who wanted to meet her and signing autographs. After Mofford retired, she told people to call her “Mother Mofford,” even though she had never had any children of her own. She had married once, in 1957, and divorced after a decade. “If you lived in Arizona...
“Rose truly was one of a kind,” said Charles Stegall, who was Mofford's longtime attorney and friend. She excelled at everything she did, from sports to scholastics, government service to volunteerism. He read from her State of the State address in 1991: “My only hope is that history will show that I did the job I was asked to do, and that I did it...
Lois Sauer was 17, a junior in high school, when she met Mofford, seven years her senior. Sauer was playing for the A-1 Queens, an all-female softball team that had originally been called the Arizona Cantaloupe Queens. Mofford had been 17 in 1939, when she was picked to play first base for the team in an exhibition game at New York's Madison Square...
Roberto Reveles, a civil-rights activist and Mofford’s longtime friend, said he has filed a petition with the Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historic Names to name a portion of U.S. Highway 60 between Mofford’s hometown of Globe and Phoenix as the Gov. Rose Mofford Memorial Highway. “It seems to me that there is no one more connected to the ...
Sep 30, 2016 · Former Gov. Rose Mofford was buried after a private service September 28 at St. Francis Cemetery in Phoenix, but not before her remains had been taken on an emotional drive-by to local places bearing her name.
Oct 23, 2016 · Rose was buried September 28, in private services attended by 30 friends and relatives at St. Francis Cemetery, 2033 N. 48th St. Her resting place is just a few steps from her...
Oct 28, 2016 · Rose Mofford made history by becoming the first Arizona woman to serve as secretary of state and then governor. Engraved on each side of the gravestone is a white cross and a rose.
