{"id":320912,"date":"2026-05-18T07:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320912\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:20:15","slug":"fresno-county-community-mourns-beloved-honey-vendor-known-as-the-honeyman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320912\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno County community mourns beloved honey vendor known as &#8216;The Honeyman&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Family, friends and customers are mourning the loss of Richard Sanchez, known throughout Fresno County as &#8220;The Honeyman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His granddaughter said the 91-year-old recently died from pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She added that an outpouring of support on social media has followed his passing.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family, friends and customers are mourning the loss of Richard Sanchez, known throughout Fresno County as &#8220;The Honeyman.&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[66614,133844,112,622,114,113,133149],"class_list":["post-320912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-belmont-avenues","tag-beloved-figure","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-richard-sanchez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320912","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=320912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}