WESTMINSTER, Calif. — Mary Peet, who touched the lives of many Southern California laundry owners through her laundry distribution company, SUDSY Vending Supplies, died May 16 at the age of 84.
Starting with a couple Laundromats in the mid-1950s, Peet saw a need for vending products to be sold to patrons. After buying and storing bulk-load detergent packaged in “tubes” for her stores’ vending machines, several other laundry owners asked to buy vend items for their stores. After negotiations with manufacturers, SUDSY Vending Supplies was born.
Well known for her dedication to customers and her ardent support of the common laundry owner, Peet was still involved in SUDSY’s day-to-day operations at the time of her death.
Surviving are her two daughters, two stepchildren, three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Donations in her memory may be made online at http://honor.americanheart.org/goto/peet.
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