Jordan Rose, founder & president of Rose Law Group, tells RLGR. “I remember being in some decently contentious meetings where I would watch in awe as he would somehow calm everyone down and they’d all walk out at the end smiling. It was like he was able to commit a sort of verbal hypnosis — it was truly a superpower.”
By Charles Borla, Cathalena E. Burch | AZ Daily Star
Marana Mayor Ed Honea, who served nearly four decades as a leader in his hometown but whose political influence spread far beyond the town boundaries, died Friday, Nov. 22. He was 77.
“There’s not a guy, a person, who has had probably a greater impact on this community than Mayor Honea has,” Town Manager Terry Rozema said. “I don’t know that there’s really much of anything that doesn’t have his fingerprints on it.”
Town officials announced Honea’s death Friday in a news release, describing him as “a pillar of our community” who served the town “with unwavering commitment, vision and a genuine passion for making it a better place for all.”
Rozema said Honea’s death came as a shock to town officials who had seen him earlier in the week. On Tuesday, Honea presided over the first council meeting since members Roxanne Ziegler and Patrick Cavanaugh had been sworn in on Nov. 7; both were elected in August, when Honea won his re-election bid.
