Sonora Smart Dodd
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.
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Sonora Smart Dodd is the founder of Father’s Day.
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William Jackson Smart is the father of Sonora Smart Dodd, the founder of Father’s Day.
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Sonora Smart Dodd, founder of Father’s Day. The photo was taken in the mid-1940s but the exact date is unknown. It ran in The Spokesman-Review in June 1943.
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This is the grave of Sonora Smart Dodd, the creator of Father’s Day, which she did in honor of her father, William Smart, a farmer and Civil War veteran. She is buried at Greenwood Memorial Terrace.
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The monument to Sonora Smart Dodd and the one to her father, William Jackson Smart, are located at Greenwood Memorial Terrace.
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