Early Life
Mofford was born Rose Perica in Globe, Arizona on June 10, 1922. The youngest of six children, her parents, John and Frances Perica, had immigrated to the United States from Austria–Hungary. The first female class president in the history of Globe High School, she had great success in both academics and athletics. She played basketball and was an All-American softball player. She graduated in 1939 as class valedictorian and, based upon her father's advice, turned down an opportunity to play professional basketball with the All American Red Heads.
Perica married T. R. "Lefty" Mofford, a captain with the Phoenix Police Department, in 1957. The couple divorced after a decade but remained friends until his death in 1983. They had no children.
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