ROSE MOFFORD, FIRST FEMALE GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA, DIES

Rose Mofford, the scrappy softball player from rural Globe who would make history by becoming Arizona’s first female 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 longtime political associate, said Mofford had been moved to the hospice as a precaution after an Aug. 31 fall at her own home.

— The Arizona Republic