Hvem fandt på ideen til fars dag?
Sonora Smart Dodd
Father's Day
Butler, Joey. "Fars dag har metodistiske bånd". Den Forenede Metodistkirke. Hentet 15. juni 2014. I 1909 i Spokane, Washington, lyttede Sonora Smart Dodd til en mors dagsprædiken i Central Methodist Episcopal Church. Dodds egen mor var død 11 år tidligere, og hendes far havde opdraget deres seks børn alene. Dodd følte sig bevæget til også at ære sin far og fædre overalt med en særlig dag. Hun forelagde sin idé for de lokale religiøse ledere, og den vandt bred tilslutning. Den 19. juni 1910 blev udpeget som den første fars dag, og der blev holdt prædikener til ære for fædrene i hele byen.
Sonora Smart Dodd
Butler, Joey. "Father's Day has Methodist ties". The United Methodist Church. Retrieved June 15, 2014. In 1909 in Spokane, Wash., Sonora Smart Dodd listened to a Mother's Day sermon at Central Methodist Episcopal Church. Dodd's own mother had died 11 years earlier, and her father had raised their six children alone. Dodd felt moved to honor her father, and fathers everywhere, with a special day, as well. She proposed her idea to local religious leaders, and it gained wide acceptance. June 19, 1910, was designated as the first Father's Day, and sermons honoring fathers were preached throughout the city.
Father's Day