Founder of Mother’s Day was herself childless
May 13, 2012Carole No Comments »It might interest you to know that the founder of the modern Mother’s Day holiday was herself childless. Two years after her own mother’s death, Anna Jarvis held a small celebration to honor her mother on May 12, 1907, and 7 years later in 1914 succeeded in establishing a federal holiday when President Woodrow Wilson [...]