Oriel's Blog (1)

Father’s day is celebrated on different days throughout the world.

Origin in the U.S.:

On June 19, 1910, a Father's Day celebration was held at the YMCA in Spokane,

Washington by Sonora Smart Dodd. Her father, the civil war veteran William

Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. She was also

a member of Old Centenary Presbyterian Church (now Knox Presbyterian

Church), where she first proposed the idea. After hearing a…