The blog posts below are taken from my grandmother's diaries. Althea Green Smith Crook was lovingly referred to as Nanny to her immediate family ~ thus her diaries are called Nanny's Diaries.

Nanny wrote in her diaries when she remembered to - mostly in the evening. There will be some years in which she didn't keep diaries and there will also be some days/weeks in her yearly diaries in which she skipped or forgot to write in them. For the most part, these are her words - written as she wrote them. There will be typos, forgotten punctuation, and other grammatical errors - but I am rewriting these as my Nanny originally wrote them.

As with all old handwriting, there are some entries that I can't quite make out - and these entries will be followed with a (?) to signify that this may or may not be correct or I can't figure out what she is trying to write.

Thank you Nanny for leaving us 50 years worth of memories! We miss you!

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

June 17- 23, 1944



Saturday June 17, 1944 

Chet and Bert finished the plastering. Set up in evening till Bill came home.


Sunday, June 18, 1944

Bill home all day. We papered mama’s room. Cold all day.


Monday, June 19, 1944

Bill, Dorothea and I went to town on special business. We washed. Cooked. Rained hard all day.


Tuesday, June 20, 1944 

Rained hard. Dorothea and I went down to Fern’s. She made me three dresses out of bags.


Wednesday, June 21, 1944

Rained hard all day. Didn’t do much.


Thursday, June 22, 1944

Cleared off today nice p.m. Fern brought Mrs. Maxfield up to visit Mama. Fern, Betty and I went over to Aunt Linnie’s.


Friday, June 23, 1944

Nice day. Did a big wash. Settled mama’s room.
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