Constance Doreen Healy, 90, of Hollywood, Maryland died on August 27, 2014 at the St. Mary's Nursing Center.

Born in Fremantle, Western Australia on June 22, 1924 she was the daughter of the late Aubrey Stewart Lincoln Semmens and Hazel Lucy May (Clark) Semmens. She grew up in the city of Perth.

During World War II, she met United States submariner, Wilson Pershing Healy of Missouri, stationed in Perth, and they were married in 1943. One of 12,000 war brides from Australia, she began her journey to America with two babies in 1946 along with 1200 other brides on an aging steam train that crossed Australia in six days. Despite the heat, they were unable to open the windows due to soot from the engine. Reaching Sydney, they boarded a ship for the long voyage to the USA that sailor's called "The Diaper Run". To be with his family more regularly, Healy transferred from the Navy to the Air Force and they lived on bases around the United States, ending in Dover, Delaware. Constance was proud to become a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1953. She was a homemaker, loved reading, tennis, swimming and was a champion bowler. Her loving husband died in 1986.

Healy is survived by sister, Betty McCann, and brother, Neil Sorley, of Western Australia; daughters, Laraine Harris (David), of Dover, Delaware, Carol Junge Miller (Henry), of Hollywood, Md., Karen Baize (Patrick), of Sequin, Texas; and son, John Raymond Healy (Jayne), of Conway, South Carolina. Grandchildren are Angela, Lori, Stacey, John, Kris, Christopher, Jason, Jeffrey, and Sara. She has ten great grandchildren.

The family will receive friends at a viewing from 4 to 7 P.M. on Tuesday, 2 September 2014 with a prayer service at 7:00 P.M. by Father John Ball at Brinsfield Funeral Home, 22955 Hollywood Road, Leonardtown, MD. Interment will be in Delaware.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to St. Mary's Nursing Center, P.O. Box 518, Leonardtown, Maryland 20650 or Hospice of St. Mary's, P.O. Box 625, Leonardtown, MD 20650.

Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown, MD.