Helena Marfell (née Glen) was born in Camperdown, Victoria in 1898. An advocate of 'women tak[ing] their place on committees and in places where a woman's viewpoint would be an advantage' (Western Mail, 20 September 1945), she was the inaugural national president of the Country Women's Association of Australia in 1945, a member of the advisory committee of the ABC, president of the Women's Section of the Country Party (for which she stood unsuccessfully for election to the Federal Parliament in 1949), a justice of the peace and a member of numerous other women's and community organisations. She died in Geelong, Victoria in 1981.

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• 'Marfell, Helena Catherine', The Australian Women's Register, National Foundation for Australian Women, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0453b.htm. Details
• 'In Perth for C.W.A. Conference', The Western Mail, 20 September 1945, p. 31, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38566841. Details