# The Brisbane Courier/1932/Obituary: Mrs W. H. Carvosso

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Source: The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), 23 February 1932, p. 13., http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21783342
OBITUARY.
Mrs. W. H. Carvosso.
With the death of Mrs. W. H. Carvosso on February 20, at the residence of Dr. A. B. Carvosso, Moray-street, New Farm, Brisbane lost one of its oldest and staunchest workers on behalf of humanity. Mrs. Carvosso was born in Cambourne, Cornwall, seventy years ago, but most of her life was spent in Australia. She was married to Mr. W. H. Carvosso in Sydney in 1885 and shortly afterwards came to Queensland, where she has been associated with many philanthropic movements. Under Lady Griffith, Mrs. Carvosso was associated with the Lady
The late Mrs. W. H. Carvosso.
Lamington Hospital of which she was honorary secretary for eleven years. She was the first inter-State secretary of the National Council of Women of which she afterwards became president, and for many years she was connected with the Junior Christian Endeavour at the old Wharf-street Congregational Church. Nevertheless it is for her work in the interests of temperance that Mrs Carvosso is most widely known. For 25 years she worked unsparingly as the secretary of the Australian Women's Christian Temperance Union, and in that capacity she went as delegate to the World Convention in America in 1922. Another position which Mrs. Carvosso held for 25 years was that of president of the Central Union of the W.C.T.U. in Brisbane, while at different times she held office in the State Union. She was in charge of the literature department of the W.C.T.U. and her gifts for record-keeping and letter writing were acclaimed by all her colleagues. In addition to the work she accomplished in public life, Mrs Carvosso did many little kindnesses that were unknown to any but the recipients and she will be greatly missed by the wide circle of friends she has won. The deceased is survived by Mr. W. H. Carvosso (Sheriff of the Supreme Court) and her two sons, Messrs. Percy and Cyril Carvosso, the former living in Brisbane, and the latter in Melbourne. Those who attended her funeral service yesterday afternoon included Mrs. J. Tait, J.P. (Australian president of the W.C.T.U.), Miss E. Bailey (Australian general secretary of the Loyal Temperance Legions), Mesdames J. Graham Wilson, J.P. (past State president of the W.C.T.U.), H. C. Tipper (State corresponding secretary of the W.C.T.U.), Misses E. Steele (State recording secretary of the W.C.T.U.), M. French (district president of the W.C.T.U.), officers and members of the Central Union, and Mrs. Cumbrae-Stewart (president of the National Council of Women).
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