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Father's Day: Its origins

by patgarcia | June 21, 2009 at 06:24 am

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Happy Father's Day!
Sonora Luise Smart Dodd did not rest until President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring 3rd Sunday od June Father's Day in 1966.
Today Father's are being celebrated throughout the world. In my country Mexico they are not celebrated as much as mother's and the difference is mighty big.
Through NowPublic it is my desire to honor and bless the lives of all Fathers among our readers, contributors, editors and staff.
Happy Father's Day! Much Happiness and blessings! Father's role has a great tremendous value in life.

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Today, Father's Day is not only a day to honor fathers, but one to show respect for all father figures. Families honor grandfathers, stepfathers, uncles and other adult male figures that are special to them.
Sonora Louise Smart Dodd, of Spokane, Washington, was 27 when she listened to a Sunday sermon about Mother's Day in 1909 and wondered why there was no corresponding day for fathers. (Mother's Day observances began in 1908 in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, according to Hallmark Cards in Kansas City.) She was just 16 when her own father, Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was widowed when his wife died in childbirth with their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his five other children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington state.
Sonora Dodd began her campaign after that sermon.