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!

Friday, July 18, 2014

March 25 - 31, 1944



Saturday, March 25, 1944 

Dorothea and Bill went to town. I did regular work. Rosie, Nancy, and Valmore Smart came up in p.m. Papa came home at 4 PM.

Dorothea, Betty (5 mos old), Ashbel Smith (aka Papa) and Billie - summer  1943)


Sunday, March 26, 1944

Bill and Dorothea went over to Denmark (Ken Lords) and got 100 chicks $15. Kennard and Lloyd went over with him.


Monday, March 27, 1944

Wash today. Both kids to school. Took fingerprints at Billie’s school. Fern sick abed, had doctor. Mama still down there.


Tuesday, March 28, 1944

I ironed, cooked. Bill went to town. Both kids went to school. Wind blew hard all day. Fern still sick abed. 


Wednesday, March 29, 1944

Nice warm day. Betty and I went over to Aunt Linnies, in the carriage. I took Betty.


Thursday, March 30, 1944

It snowed and rained, a nasty day. Bill worked third shift. He telephoned me from Portland.


Friday, March 31, 1944

Bill got home about 8:30 AM from work. Sunny today but quite cold. Mother cat taken sick.

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