Michael Curtis, who served for many years as Executive Secretary and later General Counsel to the Arizona Municipal Power Users’ Association and was active nationally with the American Public Power Association, passed away in late January.
He was 85.
Curtis received the APPA Harold Kramer National Recognition Award and in 1998, he authored Public Power in Arizona.
He was born January 27, 1941, in Phoenix, Arizona. He was the only son of Francis I. and Mary K. Curtis and is survived by his sister, Mary P. Honey, and his two daughters, Michelle Curtis Harris of San Francisco and Mary Katherine Curtis of Phoenix and three grandchildren, an obituary posted on Whitney & Murphy Funeral Home noted.
He attended St. Francis Xavier, graduated from Brophy College Preparatory, studied at Santa Clara University, and earned his business and law degrees from the University of Arizona. Admitted to the Arizona Bar in 1966, he built a distinguished legal career focused on public power, water, and municipal law, the obituary noted.
As an alternative to flowers, a gift to an elementary school scholarship fund at St. Francis Xavier Parish is being suggested.
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