Kirby Pines Retirement Community | The Pinecone

Congratulations to our CHAMPION of the Month SOPHIA MILLS Personal Care Assistant Sophia is a dedicated caregiver and she always makes the extra effort to ensure residents are getting the best quality of care, whether she is helping with dressing, grooming, doing activities or even going with them to the doctor. Sophia is always smiling and motivated every day she walks through the door, she has never met a stranger that doesn't love her. She has a positive attitude towards life and has a big heart full of compassion for others. - Tania Fuqua, Director of Caring In Place Describe Your Family: Very spiritually-minded and outspoken. Describe yourself in five words: Independent, helpful, energetic, passionate and outspoken. What do you do for fun: I enjoy cooking, being around my family and I love to shop. Do you have any hobbies: Put God first, shopping, cooking and traveling. What is your favorite thing about your job: Making residents comfortable & adjusting to their needs. Favorite food: Greens & Baked Chicken. Favorite song: Spend My Life With You by Eric Benét. What is something you are proud of: Being a mother, a grandma, a wife and being alive. What would you like people to know about you: I am dependable and I take my job seriously. • 8 • The Pinecone | June 2025 Traditionally symbolized by neckties and backyard cookouts, each year every third Sunday in June we celebrate our dads and the father figures in our lives. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the necktie is the most popular of all Father's Day gifts. The tie between Father’s Day and neckties goes beyond just being a popular gift. The tradition of giving ties on Father’s Day is said to have started in the 1920s when a department store in New York City noticed a spike in tie sales around this time. The official flower for Father’s Day is the rose. The first Father’s Day included a church service where daughters would hand red roses to their fathers during the mass. The roses were also pinned onto the clothing of children to further honor their fathers—red roses for a still-living father and a white rose for the deceased. The word “dad” was first recorded in 1500 but is most likely significantly older. Researchers believe it is derived from a child’s first sounds and is nearly universal. In other languages, the word is tad (Welsh), daid (Irish), tata (Greek), tete (Lithuanian) and tatah (Sanskrit). There are 1.5 billion fathers worldwide. 66.3 million of those father's are in the United States. However, Father’s Day is celebrated on different dates around the world. In the United States, it is celebrated on the third Sunday in June. In many European countries, it is celebrated on the the third Sunday in June or in March. Father's Day is the fifth-largest card-sending occasion in America with almost 100 million Father's Day cards sent each year. Only 50% of all Father's Day cards are purchased for dads. Nearly 15% of Father's Day cards are purchased for husbands. Other categories include grandfathers, sons, brothers, and uncles. The idea of Father's Day was conceived by Sonora Smart-Dodd who wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, a widowed Civil War veteran, left to raise six children on his own. The first Father's Day celebration was held in Spokane, Washington in 1910. The first presidential proclamation honoring fathers was issued by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966. However, it wasn't until 1972 that Father's Day was officially made a U.S. holiday, when President Richard Nixon helped set aside the third Sunday in June for dads. FUN FACTS FATHER'S DAY "A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society." —Billy Graham