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- ↑ "Meet Kathleen Owens of First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego". SDVoyager. November 16, 2017.
- ↑ Boone, Elbert J. (1998). Living Liberal Religion: 125 years in the life of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego, 1873-1998.
- ↑ Smythe, William Ellsworth (1908). "PART SIX: CHAPTER 1: Churches and Religious Life". History of San Diego, 1542-1908.
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