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Anna Marie Jarvis
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Anna Marie Jarvis

Birth
Webster, Taylor County, West Virginia, USA
Death
24 Nov 1948 (aged 84)
West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Grafton, Taylor County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Founder of Mother's Day. Petitioned Congress to create a holiday honoring all Mothers after the death of her own mother. President Woodrow Wilson signed Mother's Day into law in 1914. Towards the end of her life, Anna Jarvis came to detest her creation, due to the over commercialization of it by the public. She tried to fight this commercialization in the last years of her life.
Founder of Mother's Day. Petitioned Congress to create a holiday honoring all Mothers after the death of her own mother. President Woodrow Wilson signed Mother's Day into law in 1914. Towards the end of her life, Anna Jarvis came to detest her creation, due to the over commercialization of it by the public. She tried to fight this commercialization in the last years of her life.

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  • Maintained by: Find a Grave
  • Originally Created by: D. G. Keener
  • Added: Nov 22, 2011
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80827653/anna_marie-jarvis: accessed ), memorial page for Anna Marie Jarvis (1 May 1864–24 Nov 1948), Find a Grave Memorial ID 80827653, citing Bluemont Cemetery, Grafton, Taylor County, West Virginia, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.