Mary Wilcox; Monrovia City Council Member

Mary Wilcox, 73, member of the Monrovia City Council. Wilcox had been on the council for some 17 years and had been active in Monrovia community service for several decades. A retired Sizzler restaurant manager, she had served as president of Monrovia’s Art Festival and as vice president of the Monrovia Historical Museum. She was also the council’s liaison to the Old Town Merchants’ Assn., the San Gabriel Valley Cities Assn., the Library Board and the Monrovia Coordinating Council. Wilcox was credited even by her political opponents for her hard work in planning events to celebrate Monrovia’s centennial in 1986. On Friday in Arcadia of cerebral hemorrhage.