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f his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. In 1909, Mrs. Dodd approached her own minister and others in Spokane about having a church service dedicated to fathers on June 5, her father‘s birthday. That date was too soon for herminister to prepare the service, so he spoke a few weeks later on June 19th. From then on, the state of Washington celebrated the third Sunday in June as Father‘s Day. Children made special desserts, or visited their fathers if they lived apart. In early times, wearing floowers was a traditional way of celebrating Father‘s Day. Mrs. Dodd favored the red rose to honor a father still living, while a white flower honored a deceased dad. . Berringer, who also held Father‘s Day celebrations in Washington State as early as 1912, chose a white lilac as the Father‘s Day Flower. States and organizations began lobbying Congress to declare an annual Father‘s Day. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson approved of this idea, but it was not until 1924 when President Calvin Coolidge made it a national event to “establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations.” Since then, fathers had been honored and recognized by th