Marj Brogan was born in Box Hill, moved to Yallourn when she was 2 and moved to Newborough when they dug up Yallourn in 1976. She met her husband in Yallourn and was married in 1946 (57 years). She has two children - Kevin 55 and Suzanne 51. Marj worked in the library at the SEC before starting work at the mill in 1942, where she would ride her pushbike to work. She has been a member of the Yallourn Golf Club since 1956 and has played golf almost every day from when her kids started high school. Marj has a keen interest in theatre, having performed in and produced many plays, both drama and comedy with the Yallourn Thespians and the CWA drama group. To add to her list of community interests, Marj was a diving judge with West Gippsland Swimming Club where she began in 1956 and has been a member of Yallourn Country Women's Association since it first started helping deliver meals on wheels and is now the secretary of the Moe meals on wheels.