Endymion Captain Ed Muniz at the krewe's den in 2016. The parade's first theme was "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," which a float in the 2016 parade, right, illustrates. Riders got their first look at these and other 2016 floats during an open house at the float den in New Orleans, La., on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016.
Endymion Captain Ed Muniz multi-tasks by taking a phone call while chatting with granddaughter Jamie Hanzo, the 2016 Endymion Queen, during an open house at the krewe's float den in New Orleans, La., on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. It was the 50th anniversary of the parade Muniz founded in 1967.
Former mayor Ed Muniz applauds as Kenner Mayor Mike Yenni thanks the crowd during his re-election party at the Chateau Country Club on Saturday, April 5, 2014. (Michael DeMocker, Nola.com / The Times-Picayune)
Ed Muniz created a small Gentilly krewe in 1966 and molded it into what has come to embody the modern Mardi Gras season mega-parade.
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Endymion captain and founder Ed Muniz with his wife Peggy.
Ed Muniz, captain of the Krewe of Endymion, in 1985.
Endymion Captain Ed Muniz at the krewe's den in 2016. The parade's first theme was "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," which a float in the 2016 parade, right, illustrates. Riders got their first look at these and other 2016 floats during an open house at the float den in New Orleans, La., on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016.
Advocate staff photo by MATTHEW HINTON
Endymion Captain Ed Muniz multi-tasks by taking a phone call while chatting with granddaughter Jamie Hanzo, the 2016 Endymion Queen, during an open house at the krewe's float den in New Orleans, La., on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. It was the 50th anniversary of the parade Muniz founded in 1967.
Advocate staff photo by MATTHEW HINTON
Former mayor Ed Muniz applauds as Kenner Mayor Mike Yenni thanks the crowd during his re-election party at the Chateau Country Club on Saturday, April 5, 2014. (Michael DeMocker, Nola.com / The Times-Picayune)
Ed Muniz sponsored the ordinance requiring a successful public referendum to sell or lease Jefferson Parish's two public hospitals.
Ed Muniz, who grew the Krewe of Endymion into a Mardi Gras season colossus, amassed a network of New Orleans radio stations worth almost $29 million and served one term as Kenner's mayor after stints on the Kenner City and Jefferson Parish councils, has died at age 83, his son-in-law, Darryl d'Aquin, said Saturday.
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.
