Smart Dodd

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FILE - This June 16, 1999, file photo, shows the grave marker of Sonora Smart Dodd at Greenwood Memorial Terrace in Spokane, Wash. Dodd is known as the founder of the first celebration of Father's Day in 1910. Sonora Smart Dodd, lobbied local church and public officials for its creation. In the years that followed, Father's Day grew to become an international event and Dodd lived to see President Richard Nixon declare it an official U.S. holiday in 1972. (AP Photo/Jeff T. Green, File)