Longtime photographer for Philadelphia Catholic newspaper dies

Published: 2004-02-09

PHILADELPHIA (CNS) -- Robert S. Halvey, 86, who used his camera to chronicle events great and small in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for more than six decades, died Jan. 29. The funeral Mass for Halvey was celebrated Feb. 3 at St. Martin of Tours Church. Burial was at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Halvey submitted his first pictures to The Catholic Standard & Times, Philadelphia archdiocesan newspaper, in 1939, and his last in 1999. "You couldn't find a better man of faith and more professional," said Father Paul S. Quinter, one of the seven editors with whom he worked. "He was a humble, hardworking man of the church. For those many years, people saw his pictures grace the paper, quietly, unassumingly and wonderfully. He was a man of family; people mattered to him. He was always putting others before himself and always getting the photo."

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