Anna Jarvis
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Woman Responsible for Mother’s Day Died in West Chester Despising What Holiday Had Become
Anna Jarvis, whom many credit with creating Mother’s Day, died in Marshall Square Sanitarium in West Chester despising what the holiday had become, writes Patricia…
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Mother’s Day Has Local Roots. Get to Know the Woman Who Invented It, and Why She Hated It
Historian Taylor Schmalz is reminding all of us this Mother’s Day of the woman who started the holiday over a century ago and later despised…
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Founder of Mother’s Day Died in West Chester Trying to Keep the Celebration Pure
She pushed and prodded to awaken the world to a day for honoring mothers, and then she denounced Mother’s Day to her death in West…
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