Virginia HR 388: Commending Harry Maxwell Healy.

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17104762D 

HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 388 

Offered February 9, 2017 

Commending Harry Maxwell Healy. 

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Patron-- Hodges 

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WHEREAS, Harry Maxwell Healy retired after 60 consecutive years 
as an election official in Gloucester County, where he presided over his last 
election in 2016; and

WHEREAS, a lifelong resident of Gloucester County, Harry 
Maxwell �Max� Healy attended Botetourt School and graduated from Botetourt High 
School; and

WHEREAS, Max Healy has contributed significantly to the 
greater Gloucester community during his lifetime, not only as a valued election 
official, but also as a businessman and civic leader; and

WHEREAS, Max Healy began his esteemed career as an election 
official, serving as a clerk in 1956, then as an election judge, and finally he 
served as Botetourt precinct chief; and

WHEREAS, Max Healy worked many long days at the polls over the 
past 60 years, sometimes as long as 5 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. the next morning, when 
paper ballots had to be counted by hand, before the advent of electronic voting 
machines; and

WHEREAS, Max Healy went to work at Bailey Amusement Company in 
the 1950s and rose through the ranks to become owner and president of the 
company, which he sold in 2004; under his leadership the business expanded to 
provide services to counties and cities on the Middle Peninsula, the Northern 
Neck, and the Virginia Peninsula; and

WHEREAS, Max Healy was a founding member and served on the 
board of directors of Peninsula Trust Bank, served on the advisory board of 
BB&T Bank, and has volunteered for Habitat for Humanity and Meals on 
Wheels; and

WHEREAS, Max Healy was instrumental in founding Gloucester 
Youth Baseball in 1963; he is a lifelong member of First Presbyterian Church in 
Gloucester, where he has held many positions, including elder; and

WHEREAS, Max Healy is an outstanding public servant who played 
a vital role in the democratic process for 60 years, ensuring that all votes 
were counted on each and every Election Day; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, That Harry Maxwell Healy 
hereby be commended on his retirement after 60 consecutive years as an election 
official in Gloucester County; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates 
prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Harry Maxwell Healy as an 
expression of the House of Delegates� admiration for his admirable dedication 
to civic duty and democracy.