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- 1 2 Concordacademy.org Archived 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine , Retrieved September 22, 2013
- ↑ New York Times Obituary, Confirmed September 22, 2013
- ↑ misshalls.org, Retrieved September 27, 2013
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