Meanwhite ,Anna M.Jarvis, The daughter of Ann Reeves Jarvis, wanted to honor her mother. She requested that her mother's West Virginia church be allowed to celebrat a Mother's Day in 1980 in honor of her mother, Every mother at church that day received two camations-Ann Reeves Jarvis' favorite flower. Now,carnations and other flower are associated with Mother's Day because they were handed out at the first celebration of Mother's Day.