Also known as Winifred Howie, in 1937 she was the acting President of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association before leading the South Australian branch until 1941.

[2] Her parents were Clara Jane (born Hotham) and her husband George Cullen Howie who had emigrated from Scotland.

John Hotham, in Port Elliot, where she ran a small private school[3] in the winter and in the summer they took in boarders.

[2] The DTNS became the "District and Bush Nursing Society of S.A. Inc" in 1937[4] and she led the South Australian branch of the ATNA from 1937 to 1941.

[2] In 1948 she became a Member of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) and retired due to poor health in 1949.