OPIE REID TUCKER
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IL14  OPIE REID TUCKER was born December 26, 1913 at Centerville, Arkansas in Yell 
County. His family home was Casa in Ferry County. His father taught school in 
Centerville at the time of his birth. He was the son of  Dudley Arthur Tucker (born 
March 30, 1885 and died October, 1961) and   Ida Mae Faulkner Tucker who was born 
December 15, 1881 and died July 26, 1932.
     
He was the grandson of William Harrison and   Mary Jane Hamilton Tucker and  
Warren Searcy and   Sarah Jane Coates Faulkner (nearly 100 years of age at the time of 
her death). All were natives of Perry County.
    
His sisters were  Sybil Estelle Tucker born August 5, 1909 and married  Elmer Smith, 
also   Veryl Lucille Tucker born October 2, 1916 who married  Carl Nelson. His brother,  
Duard Arnold Tucker, born June 4, 1919 married   Elsie Perry.
    
Opie attended school at Casa and Harding College at Searcy, Arkansas (then located at 
Morrilton, Arkansas). Be was reared in the Church of Christ faith. He married   Mary 
Avery of Casa and has a daughter,  Betty Carolyn, born October 30, 1933. Their 
separation took place shortly after Betty was born and on March 1, 1941 he married   
Lucille Person of Carden Bottom.
   
They moved to Chicago in 1941 and  Opie worked there. He worked mostly for the Bell 
Telephone Company and was transferred to San Francisco by that company in 1953. 
They lived in San Francisco bay area until 1967 and moved to Los Angeles area at that 
time.
    
In Los Altos, California, he became editor and publisher and part owner of the Los 
Altos News and later published the Mountain View News, Santa Clara journal and 
Sunnyvale Daily Standard. In Los Angeles area, he worked as publisher of the El 
Monte Herald for one year and is presently in 1968 publisher and owner of the 
Newhall Record-Press in a Los Angeles suburb.