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Mother’s Day can be a difficult and painful day for some and for others, a day steeped in love and gratitude. Sending love to all mothers today and thinking of my own mother, departed for many years. She was a very loving and gentle soul and a woman who loved dogs. The Birth of Mother’s Day The origin of Mother’s Day as we know it took place in the early 1900s. A woman named Anna Jarvis started a campaign for an official holiday honoring mothers in 1905, the year her own mo

Phyllis "Pippa" Latour was born on April 8th, 1921in South Africa. Her father was a physician married to Louise, who was a British citizen living in South Africa. When she was only three months old, her father died in the rebellion in the Congo. Three years later, her mother remarried. Her stepfather was a race car driver and her mother shared his passion for automobiles and racing. Her mother raced his cars and during one such race, there was a mechanical problem with the

Judith Love Cohen was born on August 16, 1933, in Brooklyn New York. By the time she was in fifth grade, her classmates were actually paying her to do their math homework. As time progressed she was often the only woman in math classes. She decided she wanted to be a math teacher. At the age of nineteen she was studying engineering in college and dancing ballet in the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company in New York. She was brilliant and received a scholarship to Brooklyn C