Centuries ago in Grafton, West Virginia, a woman named Ann Jarvis was a light for the people in her community and the inspiration for what is now a national hol ...

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, ...

Mother’s Day was first celebrated as a local event in 1908 at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church of Grafton, West Virginia. It quickly became a national holiday by 1914. Anna Jarvis, the woman behind ...

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 ...

Let me be among the first to extend warm wishes to all mothers across the great state as we pause to honor and celebrate ...

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 ...