Ed Muniz, who founded Endymion as a neighborhood parade in Gentilly and grew it into the biggest of the New Orleans Mardi Gras season, died Saturday at his home at age 83.
Kenner City Council member Ed Muniz talks with a reporter at City Hall in 1987 about his impending move to succeed Jefferson Parish Council member Willie Hof.
Jefferson Parish Council member Ed Muniz directs a point to President Peter Betts of East Jefferson General Hospital during council meeting in Gretna on May 9, 1990.
Kenner Mayor-elect Ed Muniz speaks to supports at his victory party at the Presidential Palace in Kenner on April 29, 2006. At left is his wife, Peggy.
At his final City Council meeting, Kenner Mayor Ed Muniz listens to friends tell humorous stories about him on June 17, 2010. At right is Mayor-elect Mike Yenni.
Ed Muniz, founder and captain of the Krewe of Endymion, onstage at the krewe's Samedi Gras Festival on the Orleans Avenue neutral ground on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015.
Ed Muniz escorts his granddaughter, Jamie Elizabeth Hanzo, as the homecoming court is presented during the Brother Martin High School football game against Archbishop Rummel High at Tad Gormley Stadium in New Orleans on Oct. 21, 2016.
