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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Dennis Lynn / The Bulletin
June 14, 2009
While listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909, Sonora Dodd had the idea of honoring fathers with a special day. Her father, William Smart, a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife died while giving birth to their sixth child. He raised the newborn and his other five children....