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Where was Mother’s Day celebrated first in North America?
By Velda Paynter | May 4, 2010
In North America, the first Mother’s Day was celebrated in 1908 in Grafton, West Virginia. A school teacher named Anna Jarvis felt she had done enough for her mother while she was alive. Two years after her mother died, Jarvis asked the Andrews Methodist Sunday School, where her mother taught for 20 years, to hold a special service on the anniversary of her death. The service was to be in honour of all mothers. At the end of the service, Jarvis handed a carnation to each of the children in attendance – a white carnation if the child’s mother had passed away, or red if she was still living.
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