By Karina Bland and Craig Harris | The Republic
Rose Mofford, the scrappy softball player from rural Globe who would make history by becoming Arizona’s first woman secretary of state and governor, has died. She was 94.
Mofford, who lived 55 years in the same home and kept her phone number public, died Thursday morning at Gardiner Home, a hospice in Phoenix.
Karen Scates, a close friend and long-time political associate, said Mofford had been moved to the hospice as a precaution after an Aug. 31 fall at her own home.
“She was moved to Gardiner House to have a little more care and attention, and was doing fine and was recovering,” Scates said.
