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Published June 20, 2012, 12:00 AM

Letter - A history of Father's Day

Arkansas native Sonora Louise Smart Dodd was 27 years old when she heard a sermon in her Spokane, Washington church about Mother’s day in 1909. She believed there should be an equivalent American holiday to honor fathers.

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