Mary Helen Withers

(Mary) Helen Withers , born Mary Helen Campbell, (27 November 1907 – 15 February 1986) was an Australian community leader who became the President of the Country Women's Association for South Australia and of the national organisation.

Life Withers was born in 1907 in Bathurst. She was the elder daughter of Annie (born Campbell) and James Walker and they had both been born in the state of Victoria, Her father was a squatter near Nyngan and by 1913 the family were living at what they called Kaluga. Her mother was in the Country Women’s Association of New South Wales and Withers was taken to meetings at Nyngan. When she was still at home she was went to a CWA meeting who owned substantial lands. Her husband was Edwin Joseph Withers and they lived on the edges of the freshwater lake of Lake Alexandrina about 100 km from Adelaide. They ran a cattle property belonging to the larger Withers family. She transferred her allegiance to the South Australian Country Women’s Association (SACWA). In 1939 she joined a new section of the South Australia organisation to appeal to women who could not attend regular meetings because if their remote locations. She was President of the South Australian Country Women’s Association postal section until 1952 except for when she was President of the SACWA. Withers was the next President in 1946 because South Australia was then taking the lead for another year until Bertha Chatto St George Smith of NSW took over.

Withers was awarded an OAM on 26 January 1981 for "community service". Withers died in 1986 in North Adelaide.