Lillian Fatt was removed from her family when she was one week old baby and placed in Umeewarr Home where she remained until she was sixteen years old. Her her three younger siblings were fostered out. Fatt worked as a nurse and worked for eighteen years at Cooper Pedy.
Fatt's story was recorded by the National Library of Australia for the Bringing Them Home oral history project and appeared in the associated publication Many Voices: Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation; edited by Doreen Mellor and Anna Haebich (2002).