A Montgomery County Ride On Bus operator is being praised for her swift action and compassion after helping reunite a missing woman with dementia and her family.

On Monday night, bus operator Tilwanna Gollman Stevenson was driving her usual route through Germantown when a woman boarded her bus.

“When she got on the bus, she stood out to me because she’s not one of my regulars,” Stevenson recalled.

Shortly after, a countywide alert went out to Ride On drivers to be on the lookout for an elderly woman with dementia who had wandered away from a nearby hospital.

Police, acting on the belief that the woman may have taken the bus, pulled over Stevenson’s bus, but no one on board exactly matched the description.

“I was thinking, maybe a young person,” Stevenson said. “The 55 is a very busy b

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