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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, On Mother's Day, May 8, 2022, sons and daughters |
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across Texas and the nation will make an extra effort to honor those |
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special women who raised them and to celebrate the fundamental and |
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enduring institution of motherhood; and |
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WHEREAS, This annual celebration took root in the years |
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before the Civil War, when Ann Reeves Jarvis organized "Mother's |
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Day Work Clubs" to reduce child mortality by improving sanitation |
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conditions and to help nurse and provide medicine for the sick; |
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after the war, Mrs. Jarvis created "Mother's Friendship Day"; and |
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WHEREAS, After the death of Ann Reeves Jarvis in 1905, her |
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daughter, Anna Jarvis, envisioned a regular observance of Mother's |
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Day, when individuals would visit their mothers or attend church |
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while wearing white carnations, her own mother's favorite flower; |
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in May 1908, Miss Jarvis arranged for a Mother's Day celebration to |
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be held at St. Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia; |
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and |
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WHEREAS, Anna Jarvis went on to establish the Mother's Day |
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International Association, and she embarked upon a letter-writing |
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campaign urging legislators across the nation to adopt the holiday; |
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by 1912, many states, communities, and churches across the country |
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had begun to celebrate Mother's Day, and in 1914, President Woodrow |
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Wilson created the national holiday by officially designating the |
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second Sunday in May as a "public expression of our love and |
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reverence for the mothers of our country"; and |
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WHEREAS, Over the course of the past century, Mother's Day |
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has become a treasured occasion when we celebrate the irreplaceable |
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bond between mother and child and when Americans of all ages and |
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backgrounds express their affection and gratitude to the women who |
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nurtured, comforted, educated, and loved them; now, therefore, be |
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it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 87th Texas |
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Legislature hereby commemorate Mother's Day 2022 and pay tribute to |
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all the mothers of the Lone Star State. |
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Price |
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Speaker of the House |
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I certify that H.R. No. 947 was adopted by the House on May 8, |
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2021, by a non-record vote. |
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Chief Clerk of the House |
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