• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE0684

Cooper, Mavis Dawn

  • OBE
  • Maiden name Price, Mavis
  • Occupation Community worker

Summary

Mavis Cooper, née Price, was born in Bairnsdale, Victoria and grew up in Melbourne. She trained as a nurse and moved to Jamestown, South Australia after she met her future husband, a farmer, on holiday there. After joining the Country Women’s Association’s choir in 1957, she was soon an office holder in the local branch. She progressed from Branch President to State President in 1974 and then National President in 1977. Mavis Cooper was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 14 June 1980 for service to the Country Women’s Association.

Archival resources

  • State Library of South Australia
    • Interview with Mavis Dawn Cooper [sound recording] Interviewer: June Donovan

Published resources

  • Book
    • The Many Hats of Country Women: The Jubilee History of the Country Women's Association of Australia, Stevens-Chambers, Brenda, 1997
  • Resource

Related entries


  • Presided
    • The South Australian Country Women's Association Inc. (1929 - )
    • Country Women's Association of Australia (1945 - )

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