Carol Howard &
Hooley's

No one grew up in Stillwater without regular visits to Hooley’s. Carol Howard was considered the “Face of Hooley’s”. Everyone who entered the store was greeted as a friend, and even by name, by Carol. Hooley’s grocery history goes back to the 1870’s and originally became what we now know as Cub Foods. Carol was a fundamental part of organizing the employees of the grocery industry as part of that evolution. Those who grew up in Stillwater remember Carol slipping them a dime to ride the pony out front. Hooley’s hosted an annual watermelon contest, and some remember heckling the watermelon drivers to drop a watermelon on the sidewalk so they could grab a chunk of sweet melon in the summer heat, and inevitably that would happen with a nod and a wink. Carol’s graciousness and lessons on customer service shaped an entire group of people who worked and shopped there.