How Did Father’s Day Originate and Why Did Mrs. Sonora Dodd Propose the Holiday Honoring Fathers?
During a Spokane, Washington, Mother’s Day service in 1910, a Mrs. Sonora Dodd thought of how she and her five brothers had been raised on a small farm by her single father. She proposed a Father’s Day celebration, but although it caught on locally, it was a political hot potato and didn’t receive permanent recognition until an
