Career
She became deeply involved in the community, serving as senior district superintendent of the Australian Red Cross (1939–1945) and on the committee of the Warrnambool and District Base Hospital (1942–1952). She was president of the south-west Victorian division (1938–1939, 1940–1942) and state president (1942–1945) before being elected the first president of the Country Women"s Association of Australia in 1945. In 1949, having stepped down as CWA president, she was elected president of the Victorian Country Party"s women"s section, standing as the candidate for the unwinnable seat of Wannon at that year"s federal election.
Her preferences helped ensure the election of Liberal candidate Dan Mackinnon.
Her term as Communist Party women"s president expired in 1950 and she moved to Geelong in 1952, where she became a special magistrate of the Children"s Court in 1957. Marfell died in 1981 at Geelong.
