Baking Legends: After a Lifetime of Rolling in Dough, Schmidt Can Retire

June 17, 2019 Pioneer Journal

Mary and Dave Schmidt were those binding agents for many years at Abby’s Bakery in Wadena. The two were once the owners of the Wadena Bakery on Jefferson Street S., baking in their own businesses for 22 years in Wadena. They were later approached to be the bakers that would start Abby’s Bakery, a central baking system next to Mason Brothers that could distribute baked goods all over the Midwest.