 Beveridge contested the Senate at the 1943 election as an independent, temporarily suspending her involvement with the apolitical CWA.After her defeat she returned in a local capacity before travelling to Amsterdam in 1947 and Copenhagen in 1951 as a delegate to the Associated Country Women of the World conferences.Having moved to Roseville after her husband's death in 1959, Beveridge died there in 1964 and was cremated.