26/01/2010
Well Done Aunty Rita OAM xxoo
Name: O’BRIEN, Rita Mary
Award: Medal of the Order of Australia
Post-nominal: OAM
Date granted: 26 January 2010
State: Vic
Suburb: Shepparton
Postcode: 3630
Country: Australia
Citation: For service to the community of Colac and the surrounding region
Mrs Rita Mary O’BRIEN,
Shepparton Victoria
For service to the community of Colac and the surrounding region.
Member, Country Women’s Association of Victoria, since 1953.
- Active Member, Congupna Branch, since 2001.
- President, Western Group, 1962-1964 and 1967-1968.
- Member, Yeo and Warncoort Branches, for many years.
Member, Warncoort Red Cross Auxiliary, Australian Red Cross, from 1918 until the late 1990s; began by knitting a scarf for the World War One effort.
- Member, Red Cross Colac and District Municipal Appeal Committee, 1977.
- Treasurer, Darraweit Guim Red Cross during World War Two
Lioness, Lions Club of Colac, 1960s-1980s.
Volunteer fundraiser, Colac Day Training Centre,1970s.
Mrs O’Brien was a Member of Hosts, Quota and the Yeo Progress Association, and was a volunteer with the Country Fire Authority and Meals on Wheels, 1960s-1980s.
. . . . See Aunty Rita’s page here 
