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Show Originator Of Mother's Day Dies Penniless Anna M. Jarvis, lonely spinster who founded Mother's day, died Wednesday at 84 blind and penniless. pen-niless. Her death in a quiet sanitorium in uburban West Chester followed follow-ed a long illness. Partially deaf and unhappy in her last years, Miss Jarvis died of old age, doctors said. She had lived in the home since early 1944 when friends, learning of her impoverished im-poverished plight, collected funds and placed her there. Deeply sentimental, Miss Jarvis Jar-vis started the Mother's day observance ob-servance on the second anniversary anniver-sary of her own mother's death Mav 9, 1907 bv gathering a few friends at her home for a memorial mem-orial service. The movement spread. Miss Jarvis Jar-vis wrote to legislative and executive execu-tive officers of nations and states urFinsr adoDtion of the dav lecral-lv. lecral-lv. Finallv her nroddinar pen. waxing wax-ing sentimental, won over Prpsi-dent Prpsi-dent Woodrow Wilson. In 1014 Tip proclaimed the sr-ond Sundav in May a "Flaar holidav" honoring the nation's mothers. |