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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Services at Immanuel Episcopal Church are offered ... at First Baptist/United Methodist churches, 18 Town Crier Drive. Service begins at 10:30 a.m. The Rev. Suzanne Andrews and the Rev. Ralph ...

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, West Virginia and in Philadelphia ...

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 ...