Father's Day founder Sonora Dodd's legacy lives on
The unusual practice seemed an obvious tradition to her family: Dodd invented Father's Day.
It was 1909 when Dodd suggested at a Mother's Day church sermon that dads should have their day,
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Father's Day founder Sonora Dodd's legacy lives on
Betsy Roddy's family used to send a Father's Day card each year to her great-grandmother, Sonora Dodd. The unusual practice seemed an obvious tradition to her family: Dodd invented Father's Day. It was 1909 when Dodd suggested at a Mother's Day church sermon that dads should have their day,
