Marian McQuade

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Marian Lucille Herndon McQuade (born January, 1917), a housewife, is the founder of National Grandparents Day and the Past 80 Party. Campaigning in West Virginia and later nationwide to set aside a day for grandparents, in 1973 West Virginia became the first state with a special day to honor grandparents when Gov. Arch Moore proclaimed May 27, 1973, Grandparents Day. In September 1978 the White House called her to inform her that President Carter had signed a bill designating the Sunday after Labor Day as National Grandparents Day beginning in 1979. In 1989 the U. S. Postal Service issued a tenth anniversary commemorative envelope bearing the likeness of Marian McQuade in honor of National Grandparents Day. She was born in Caperton, West Virginia and lives in Oak Hill, West Virginia. Her late husband and former coal miner is Joe McQuade. Marian McQuade has 15 children, 43 grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren.