PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A woman in San Tan Valley is going viral on TikTok for selling baked goods in honor of her father, who recently passed away.
Kaley Petersen recently lost her dad back in December unexpectedly due to undiagnosed diabetes. “He struggled with health medical issues very silently and kind of related them to different things, maybe getting older. He didn’t know that he was sick,” Petersen said.
Since then, Petersen said that she found out that her dad was nearly $200,000 in debt. She said her childhood is at risk of foreclosure, so last week, she posted on social media that she was selling homemade baked goods to help collect money to save her father’s home.
The response has been overwhelming. “Since everyone’s coming and supporting me, I feel so happy, and I haven’t fe