Gerald Dennis Healy, Jr.

He is joyfully reunited in Heaven with his dearly beloved and greatly missed wife of sixty-six years, the late Elizabeth Eliska Casso Healy. The beautiful love story of these childhood sweethearts began at sixteen and lasted throughout their lives, witnessed daily by their children Kathy Schiro (Glenn), Nancy Dours (the late Paul), Denny (Sandy), and Chris (Monica). It also set a wonderful example for their loving grandchildren Jeff Schiro (Brittany), John Dours (Aline), Brett Healy (Jessica), and Meghan Healy (Scott), as well as great-granddaughter Kennedy Schiro. He was eagerly anticipating the arrival of a great-grandson next spring.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Eleanor Schenck Healy and Gerald Dennis Healy, Sr. and brother Leonard Dennis Healy. He is also survived by nieces, nephews, and cousins.

He was an intelligent and inventive man, and he was never too busy to share his talents and skills with others. His patience and logic made him an excellent teacher and problem-solver in both his personal and professional life. He was a proud graduate of Jesuit High School and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Tulane University. He later obtained a master's degree in Public Health with an emphasis on Environmental Engineering from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine while working full time and raising an active young family. He wore many hats in his career, but he most enjoyed time spent being the engineer in charge of the Superdome, training sanitarians, providing drinkable water to those devastated by hurricanes, serving on the State Plumbing Board and working for the EPA.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend a Memorial Mass in the chapel of Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. New Orleans, on Friday, November 22, 2019 at 11am. Visitation will begin at 9am. Interment will follow at Lake Lawn Park.

In lieu of flowers and because of the great love he shared with his wife for animals, donations to the LA-SPCA are preferred.