Father's Day founder Sonora Smart Dodd was raised by her dad after her mother died in childbirth in 1898.
The holiday's recognition in the country came decades after Mother's Day was made a nationwide holiday.The late Sonora Smart Dodd launched the celebration of dads in 1910 in her hometown of Spokane, Washington. As a result, she is the one responsible for those annual gifts that run the gamut from embarrassingly silly-looking neckties to kids’ finger paintings crafted with so much love by those tiny hands that they can bring a tear to the eye of even the most stoic father.
Dodd and her five younger brothers, after all, had been raised by their father after their mother died in childbirth in 1898. Finally, in 1972, President Richard Nixon declared the third Sunday of June a federal holiday honoring dads. Dodd, who died at age 96 in 1978, had lived to see her dream come true.
Moving to Los Angeles decades ago, she found her niche here in marketing and stayed, eventually moving into a Craftsman-style home on the city’s west side, where she lives with her two dogs.
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