Mrs Moyle, who is in her early 70s, was a "people person" who had fitted thousands of youngsters over the years, including up to three generations of school pupils.
"I’ve enjoyed the people, the students, and most of all I just loved the little tots," she said.
"They’re so cute, trying on their first uniforms.
"I’ve got a lot of pleasure out of it.
"It doesn’t feel like 39 years or whatever."
She has also enjoyed helping anxious children and parents prepare for that challenging first day at school, and fitting pupils with their first uniform.
"It makes them feel confident. It makes the child feel good when you put a uniform on a little child of 5 years of age.
"They go away feeling happy," she said.
Among those she helped over the years were several children who later became All Blacks.
When Richie McCaw was a boarder at Otago Boys’ High School, she fitted him for his first junior school uniform, and later for his senior uniform.
In the late 1970s, Mrs Moyle applied for a job that offered a month’s work in the Arthur Barnett’s tea rooms, on the department store’s top floor, near the toy department.
She enjoyed the busy job, which included providing morning and afternoon tea to senior management, and her short-term job was twice extended for several months.
She was then offered a job in menswear where she worked for five years, before becoming manager and buyer for the school uniform ("collegewear"), and boyswear section.
She continued her work with school uniforms after H&J Smith bought Arthur Barnett’s in mid-2015. Dunedin-born, Mrs Moyle said she had seen many changes in school uniform sales over the years, including a big growth in volume, partly reflecting a growing complexity of uniforms, including winter and summer uniforms now being available.
H&J Smith Dunedin general manager Rebekah Moore said Mrs Moyle was a "kind and special person" who had built a wide reputation for her integrity and her caring, friendly and knowledgeable service.
