Margaret Hance, 66; Phoenix Ex-Mayor

Margaret T. Hance, who presided over eight years of increased civic development as Phoenix’s first woman mayor and later was co-chairman of the 1984 reelection campaign of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, has died of cancer. She was 66.

Mrs. Hance died Sunday in Phoenix of an undisclosed type of cancer.

Mrs. Hance was elected mayor in November, 1975, as an independent and served four two-year terms before retiring in 1983.

Reagan appointed Mrs. Hance to the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and the Presidential Federalism Advisory Committee. She also was a trustee of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a director of the National League of Cities and a former president of the National Conference of Republican Mayors.