Jo Anne Darcy, Former Santa Clarita Mayor and Chamber Exec, Dies

Jo Anne Darcy, a four-time mayor of Santa Clarita and former executive director of the chamber, died Sunday. She was 86, according to media reports. Darcy and her husband Curtis ran the Acton ‘49er Saloon in the late 1960s, until she took a position at the Saugus-Newhall-Valencia Chamber of Commerce. She later became executive director of the organization, now called the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce. She left the chamber to work as a field representative for L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich. She served on the Santa Clarita City Council or as mayor from the city’s formation in 1987 until 2002. Darcy also served on the chamber’s legislative committee, the Small Business Development Center Business Survival Committee and the College of the Canyons Special Task Force on Small Business. The library in Canyon Country is named in her honor.