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= Mariette Moroz = Marie Henriette Moroz (née Prins; November 4, 1933 - September 3, 2020) Was the first female bus driver in Alberta Canada

Mariette was born in Pangalengan, Indonesia on November 4, 1933. As a teenager, Mariette and her family were placed in an internment camp during the Second World War for three years. After the war, the family was repatriated to Holland for a short time then immigrated to Canada in 1952 where they resided in Montreal for one year. The family then decided to head west to Lethbridge Alberta and worked sugar beets before Mariette took a job in the kitchen at the Galt Hospital.

Mariette met Marian Moroz (Mario) in Lethbridge where they were married in 1953 and together raised their three sons. In 1964, Mariette began driving school bus for Enerson Motor’s throughout the County of Lethbridge. In 1972, she began driving school bus in the City of Lethbridge and in October 1974, she became the first full time female city bus driver in Alberta. Mariette retired from the Lethbridge Transit in 1997 but continued to drive bus for the Lethbridge Seniors Centre well into her 70’s.