{"id":320823,"date":"2026-05-18T05:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320823\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T05:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:04:10","slug":"fresno-county-community-mourns-beloved-honey-vendor-known-as-the-honeyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320823\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno County community mourns beloved honey vendor known as &#8216;The Honeyman&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, May 18, 2026 4:53AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Fresno County community mourns beloved honey vendor Richard Sanchez\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Family, friends and customers are mourning the loss of Richard Sanchez, known throughout Fresno County as &#8220;The Honeyman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sanchez spent the past 18 years selling honey at a makeshift stand at the intersection of Temperance and Belmont avenues, becoming a familiar and beloved figure in the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">His granddaughter said the 91-year-old recently died from pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She added that an outpouring of support on social media has followed his passing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;So nice people leaving messages how he impacted their lives it&#8217;s got to be in the thousands already, cool and comforting, it&#8217;s nice to know he left such a legacy behind,&#8221; said Joanna Scarborough, Sanchez&#8217;s granddaughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sanchez is survived by his wife of 72 years. The couple shared six children. He also leaves behind eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, May 18, 2026 4:53AM FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Family, friends and customers are mourning the loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[133796,5864,2471,112,622,114,113,133792,133794,96690,133795,47576,133149,133793,294],"class_list":["post-320823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-133796","tag-community-support","tag-family-legacy","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-honey-man","tag-joanna-scarborough","tag-local-vendor","tag-mourning","tag-pancreatic-cancer","tag-richard-sanchez","tag-temperance-and-belmont","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}