Healy, Stan, 1918-1996

Edward "Stan" Healy was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1918, the son of Edward and Emma Healy. He attended Whittier Grade School and graduated from Missoula County High School. In 1941, he graduated from the University of Montana with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

He served in the U.S. Army from 1941 to 1945. In 1946, he began work at the Missoulian as a reporter and photographer. He worked there until 1961, then was a freelance writer and photographer. He worked primarily from Missoula, but also traveled to other parts of the country to sell pictures to papers. He completed photo-based stories about Memphis, Tennessee, and the steel mills of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Healy served on the Missoula City Council for seventeen years, representing Ward 2, the Northside Neighborhood. When Interstate Highway 90 was developed, the government demanded demolition of many Northside homes. Healy challenged the highway department to save his childhood home and others in the neighborhood. He was also interested in automobiles, his cameras, and electronics.

Healy suffered a heart attack in 1979 and moved from his childhood home to a nursing home. He died in 1996 in Missoula.

From the guide to the Stan Healy Photographs, 1891-1977, (University of Montana--Missoula Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Archives and Special Collections)