Dick Wood Jr., the man who spent 34 years steering Wawa from a regional dairy business into a convenience-store powerhouse, died peacefully at his home on July 10, according to KYW Newsradio. He was 88.
Wood carried his family’s legacy forward. His great-grandfather, George Wood, opened Wawa Dairy in 1902.
The first Wawa Food Market opened in 1964 in Folsom, laying the groundwork for what Wood would later build into a household name across the region…