![]() ![]() Hintz graduated from Stillwater High School in 1959 and immediately went to work as a secretary for Northern States Power in Stillwater. “She said, ‘No, I would like to save it all, so I can spend it on clothing for when I go to St. She baby-sat and baked cookies and cleaned bathrooms for a Stillwater family who paid her $5 a week her mother told her she needed to save $4 a week and could spend $1, he said. Hintz started working when she was 10 years old and never stopped, he said. with a bag of cookies waiting for the guy who delivered the Pioneer Press,” he said. Peterson always made extra cookies for the garbagemen, postal carriers and newspaper delivery people. “One of the trucks was going north, and the other one was going south,” Pritchett said. The accident occurred outside her house in the 900 block of Willard Street West. Peterson, 81, of Stillwater, was on her way to deliver cookies to the driver of a Waste Management garbage truck when she was fatally struck by another Waste Management garbage truck about 7:45 a.m. Peterson couldn’t eat the cookies she baked - she was diagnosed with celiac disease 10 years ago - but “she loved making people happy by giving them away,” Pritchett said. “People would eat her cookies, and everyone was constantly itching for more.” “That’s why they were so addicting,” he said. Peterson made a minimum of 10 batches a week, and each batch had two bags of chocolate chips and extra sugar in it, said her grandson, Josh Pritchett. Peterson, 81, was fatally struck by a garbage truck on April 25. Josh Pritchett stands next to a memorial in honor of his grandmother, Margaret Peterson, in the yard of her Stillwater home on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Margaret Peterson baked her famous chocolate-chip cookies at least three times a week and always doubled or tripled the recipe. ![]()
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