The first one took place at what was the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton. Today, the holiday is celebrated across the globe. Even if a mother has passed. "I love my mom,” Amanda ...

The first official Mother’s Day service was held on May 12, 1908, at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton—the same church where her mother once taught. The momentum was unstoppable. By 1911, ...

She held the first official celebration on May 10, 1908, at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia. Simultaneously, a large event was held at a department store in Philadelphia, ...

The cultural institution of Mother’s Day began with a single massive flower delivery. In 1908, Anna Jarvis, widely regarded as the founder of the holiday, delivered five hundred white carnations to ...

Ann Reeves Jarvis was a Methodist laywoman living in Grafton, West Virginia ... in a service of worship at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in May 1907. She provided 500 white carnations ...

The first official Mother’s Day service took place on May 10, 1908, at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton. Just six years later, in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Mother ...

Offerings and donations can be mailed to 9 Church Street, Bellows Falls, VT. Services at Immanuel Episcopal Church ... First Baptist/United Methodist churches, 18 Town Crier Drive. Service begins at ...

On May 10, 1908, the first Mother's Day service was held in Grafton, West Virginia, at what was the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church. It is now known as the International Mother's Day Shrine.

In 1907 in Grafton, Anna Jarvis organized the first Mother’s Day service of worship at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church where it was celebrated, and the church still serves as the International ...

Charleston WV – The following events happened on these dates ... May 10, 1908: The first official observance of Mother’s Day was held at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton and ...

In 1908, the first formal Mother’s Day celebrations were observed on the second Sunday in May—the anniversary of Jarvis’ mothers death—in Grafton ... sent 500 white carnations to Andrews Methodist ...