She established several successful businesses culminating in the discovery that led to the creation of the Nabarlek Uranium Mine in the Northern Territory.

Her mother was Jessie Gwendolyne (born Napier) and her father was Hugo Albert Valentine Healey.

The large house had been built for James Waddell Marshall who ran the department store.

[1] With her new interest in mining she investigated the potential around Oenpelli (now Gunbalanya) in the Northern Territory.

She had intended to share the wealth with the aboriginal people who had lived on the land, but she died in 1974 in the Adelaide suburb of Kensington Park from a brain haemorrhage.