Sonora Smart Dodd – raised by her father after her mother died – spent six decades lobbying everyone from presidents to retailers for support in celebrating Father’s Day nationwide.
A Renaissance woman, the mother of Father’s Day was a painter, poet and businesswoman, running a funeral home with her husband while raising the couple’s only son.
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