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- ↑ "Wyoming Blue Book Four" (PDF). wyoarchives.state.wy.us. 1991. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
- ↑ "H.L. Jensen". Hamilton's Southtown Funeral Home. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
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