This page is a Special Tribute for Fathers Everywhere!
"Any Man Can Be A Father ...
But It Takes Someone SPECIAL to be A Dad!"
These pages have been found online and all graphics are done by Penny Parker
and Authors of the poems are listed as well in each poem. Thank You.
Who came up with the idea of Father's Day?
Her name was Sonora Louise Smart Dodd and she lived in Spokane, Washington. Sonora was the oldest of six children raised by their father, William Jackson Smart, when their mother died during childbirth. Sonora honored and revered her father, and while listening to a Mother's Day sermon, in 1909, she determined there should also be a day to honor fathers.
Sonora gained local support and made her dream a reality, one year later, within her own city of Spokane, Washington. Sonora married John Bruce Dodd. She died March 22, 1978, several years after Father's Day became a permanent national observance.
Why June?
In 1910 Sonora chose June 19th, as the day to celebrate Father's Day because that was her father's birthday. With support from the Spokane Ministerial Association and the YMCA, the first Father's Day was celebrated in Spokane on June 19, 1910.
Dad's Favorite Sayings
- Go ask your mother!
- Just wait until I get home!
- I love you son!
- I love you princess!
- When I was your age. . . . .
- My father used to tell me. . . .
- I used to walk to school in the snow.
- Be home early
- Thats not a tear I have something in my eye.
