- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0453
Marfell, Helena Catherine
- OBE
- Born 4 August 1898, Camperdown, Victoria, Australia
- Died 2 November 1981, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
- Occupation Community worker
Summary
Helena Marfell was the inaugural national president of the Country Women’s Association of Australia in 1945.
Details
Marfell was a foundation member of the Warrnambool branch of the Country Women’s Association (1931), and twice president of the South-Western Group. She was also a member of the Victorian State Executive, and state president from 1942 until 1945. President of the Women’s Section of the Victorian Country Party, Marfell stood unsuccessfully for the federal seat of Wannon during the election in 1949.
During World War II Marfell was senior superintendent of the Warrnambool district for the Red Cross Society. She donated a silver teapot for use when the Country Women’s Association served refreshments at the railway tea rooms to recruits leaving Warrnambool.
On 1 January 1968 Helena Marfell was appointed an Officer to the Order of the British Empire (Civil) for services to social welfare. She was honoured by being made a Life Governor of the Warrnambool Base Hospital and the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind.
Events
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1970
Born daughter of Archibald Glen
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1949 - 1950
President of the Women’s Section at the Victorian Country Party
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1942 - 1945
President of the South-Western Group of the Country Women’s Association
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1942 - 1945
State President of the Country Women’s Association
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1945 - 1946
National President of the Country Women’s Association
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1946
Member of the Corangamite Regional Committee
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1943
Member of the State Relief Committee
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1943
Member of the State Broadcasting Committee
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1939 - 1945
Senior Supertindent of the Red Cross in the Warrnambool district
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1938 - 1939
President of the South-Western Group of the Country Women’s Association
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1949
Country Party candidate for the electorate of Wannon at the Federal election
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2018
Married Henry G Marfell, they had two children
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1931
Helped found the Warrnambool Branch of the Country Women’s Association
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2068
Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Archival resources
Published resources
- Edited Book
- Book
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Site Exhibition
- Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html
- The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders
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Resource
- Trove: Marfell, Helena Catherine (18960804-19811102), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-742084