{"id":242157,"date":"2026-07-13T11:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242157\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:45:08","slug":"former-wawa-ceo-who-led-company-for-decades-dies-at-88-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242157\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Wawa CEO who led company for decades dies at 88 | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chairman and Ceo of Wawa Dick Wood Jr. has died.<\/p>\n<p>The convenience store chain confirmed that he passed at 88 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Wood joined Wawa in 1970 as its first General Counsel and went on to lead the company for more than five decades as President, CEO and Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Under his leadership, Wawa grew from a regional dairy and store operation into a beloved institution with more than 900 stores across six states.<\/p>\n<p>Wood is survived by his two children.<\/p>\n<p>Next Monday, the convenience store chain will serve free coffees in his honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Chairman and Ceo of Wawa Dick Wood Jr. has died. The convenience store chain confirmed that he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,279,60,805,28,7445,7446,835],"class_list":["post-242157","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-berks","tag-business","tag-lehighvalley","tag-pennsylvania","tag-poconos-coal","tag-southeastern-pa","tag-western-newjersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242157","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=242157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}