[2] Hume worked in several cultural industries in Adelaide while raising her four children, including teaching elocution lessons.

She was art director of the Adelaide Repertory Theatre, and accomplished music, singing, dancing, sculpture and flower arranging.

[3] Stella Hume was active in volunteer work in Adelaide, including driving disabled children to and from the hospital,[4] and with the Liberal Union.

She continued to give occasional radio talks there and patented a four-valve wireless receiver.

She moved back to Adelaide in 1939 and then to Goulburn, New South Wales in the early 1950s and died at Kenmore Mental Hospital in 1954.