{"id":136669,"date":"2026-02-17T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136669\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:19:08","slug":"longtime-owner-of-little-dairy-queen-in-south-wichita-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136669\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime owner of \u201cLittle Dairy Queen\u201d in south Wichita dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) &#8211; Richard Barrett, who owned the \u201cLittle Dairy Queen\u201d at 849 S. Poplar for more than 30 years, has died, the store announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was 94.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cRichard was a true Wichita legend, and someone who touched the lives of so many in our community,\u201d read a Facebook post from Dairy Queen. \u201cHis kindness, dedication, and love for people helped shape what this store means to generations of families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Barrett was well-known in the community for owning the restaurant in south Wichita into his 90s. He discussed retirement in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwch.com\/2022\/06\/09\/s-wichita-dairy-queen-owner-opening-potential-last-summer\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kwch.com\/2022\/06\/09\/s-wichita-dairy-queen-owner-opening-potential-last-summer\/\">a story with 12 News<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cNot a lot of people have a job that they can make people happy,\u201d Barrett <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwch.com\/2021\/10\/28\/local-dairy-queen-owner-showered-with-birthday-cards\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kwch.com\/2021\/10\/28\/local-dairy-queen-owner-showered-with-birthday-cards\/\">said on his 90th birthday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIn honor of Richard\u2019s memory and the incredible legacy he leaves behind, we will be hosting a fundraiser later this week,\u201d the Dairy Queen\u2019s post read. \u201cThis is our small way of celebrating his life and giving our community a chance to come together in remembrance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KWCH. All rights reserved. To report a correction or typo, please email news@kwch.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) &#8211; Richard Barrett, who owned the \u201cLittle Dairy Queen\u201d at 849 S. Poplar for more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-136669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}