Kaye Brill

Kaye Elizabeth BRILL - Yallourn resident 1955-1961

Kaye, daughter of Ivan Sidney William Brill and Lauris Irene Stanger born Tuesday 12 April 1955 at Yallourn Hospital, Victoria (attended by Dr. V W O’Keefe). Kaye married Trevor George Bland 1986 in South Australia.
Children (2): Georgina and Thomas

Occupation: Registered Nurse/Midwife (specialising In Neonatal Intensive Care)

Residence/s:
Yallourn 1955 – 1961: 47 Wattle Road, Yallourn i.e. one of the two residential streets located within the ‘Married Quarters’]
Cranbourne, Victoria 1961 – 1965
Adelaide, South Australia, from 1966

Community Service:
Miss South Australia Charity Queen 1976
From 1954 until 2000, the Miss Australia Quest was associated with the Spastic Centres of Australia. The Quest was primarily an annual fundraiser for the Australian Cerebral Palsy Association (ACPA), raising over $90 million. Kaye raised $53,697.22 to become the highest fund raiser in South Australia.

Yallourn Memories:
- Kindergarten - Corner Broadway & Uplands Road, Yallourn, 1959
- Yallourn State School No 4085, 1960
- Family Christmas celebrations at my grandparents’ 44 Banksia Street home
- Walking ‘up the street’ with my grandmother to buy ‘mock chicken legs’ from the Yallourn Shopping Centre butcher shop
- The picturesque Yallourn Town Square Shopping Centre
- My grandfather's backyard vegetable garden and fruit trees and my grandmother’s big, blue hydrangea bush growing adjacent the backyard stairs
- 'Maleficent' the witch who could be heard in the backyard outhouse at 44 Banksia Street when pulling the toilet chain (a family tale to explain the toilet chain’s clatter) 'Maleficent' seemed to follow my grandparents when they relocated to Chelsea
- Being taught to swim in the Yallourn Swimming Pool by my grandfather, Thomas Stanger (participating in the 1963 Herald Learn-To-Swim Campaign at the Yallourn Swimming Pool – presented with a 25-yard Swimming Certificate)
- Visiting my mother’s friends on Banksia Street and my nan’s cousin, Keith Mitchell and his wife Laura who lived around the corner on Edgehill Road
- My mother often recounted the story of me, age about 4, accidently turning the fire hose on at Rockman’s store, spraying water on much of the adjacent displayed merchandise
- My mother and grandparents love for and stories of life in Yallourn.

Compiled by Kaye, 2025