 After an unsuccessful stint as a guest house operator, she organised for Blind Babies Homes in 1955 and then became organising secretary of the Australian Women's Movement against Socialism.Weber died in 1976 at Camberwell, and was cremated at Springvale Crematorium.She was the first woman elected at a general election in Victoria (Millie Peacock had previously won the seat of Allandale at a by-election), and the first woman in Australia to win a seat as an independent.