Avis Green Tucker (July 30, 1915 – December 17, 2010) owned ''

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'' in

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from 1947 to 2007. She was born Avis Green in

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. When she was 18 months her parents moved to

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. She graduated from Southwest High School in Kansas City and the

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in 1937. She married William Tucker in

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on June 8, 1941. They bought the Star-Journal in 1947. When he died in 1966 she continued to publish the newspaper until 2007 when she sold it to the

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. She first female president of the

curators in 1972, first female president of Missouri Associated Dailies in 1973;

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's Honor Medal winner in 1976; Missouri Press Association's first female president in 1982; first female Board of Trustees Member for Westminster College; and received the

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's McKinney Award in 1982 and was the first woman inducted into the Missouri Newspaper Hall of Fame in 1992.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tucker, Avis 1915 births 2010 deaths University of Missouri alumni American newspaper publishers (people) People from Concordia, Kansas