Sonora Smart Dodd
Sun., June 18, 2017
The idea for Father’s Day originated with a young woman, Sonora Smart Dodd, in her late 20s while sitting in church in Spokane on Mother’s Day in 1909.
Related stories
It started here: Sonora Dodd, the Spokane mother of Father’s Day
On Mother’s Day in 1909, 28-year-old Sonora Smart Dodd sat in a Spokane church, turning a question over in her mind as the preacher spoke in glowing terms of the virtues of motherhood. Why, she wondered, was there no Father’s Day?