{"id":150972,"date":"2026-03-28T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150972\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T16:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:17:08","slug":"owner-of-allentown-fairgrounds-farmers-market-dies-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150972\/","title":{"rendered":"Owner of Allentown Fairgrounds Farmers Market dies | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Dan Wuchter, part of the Allentown Fairgrounds Farmers Market since it opened in 1955 has died, according to the market’s Facebook page.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Daniel G. Wuchter, Sr.,, of New Tripoli, passed away on Thursday, March 26, at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown. He was 86.<\/p>\n

The Facebook post says Wuchter was 15-years-old at the time the market opened, and was used to hard work growing up on a chicken farm. Dan “started selling eggs door-to-door when he was just six or seven years old” according to the post.<\/p>\n

Wuchter became the sole owner and operator of the Allentown Fairgrounds Farmers Market in February of 1995.<\/p>\n

Dan and his wife Laurie also own a few of the businesses within the market, including Dan\u2019s Bar-B-Qued Chicken.<\/p>\n

The couple also runs MountainView Horse Rescue<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Funeral services<\/a> will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at Bachman, Kulik & Reinsmith Funeral Home, 17th & Hamilton Streets, Allentown. A viewing will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday and 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday in the funeral home. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Allentown.<\/p>\n

Contributions: In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial donation in Dan’s name to Mountainview Horse & Cat Rescue, 4508 Winding Road, New Tripoli, PA 18066.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Dan Wuchter, part of the Allentown Fairgrounds Farmers Market since it opened in 1955 has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,805],"class_list":["post-150972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehighvalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}