Avis Green Tucker (July 30, 1915 – December 17, 2010)[1] owned The Daily Star-Journal in Warrensburg, Missouri from 1947 to 2007.
When she was 18 months her parents moved to Pleasant Hill, Missouri.
She graduated from Southwest High School in Kansas City and the University of Missouri in 1937.
[2] She married William Tucker in Memphis, Tennessee on June 8, 1941.
When he died in 1966 she continued to publish the newspaper until 2007 when she sold it to the News-Press & Gazette Company.