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, August 29, 2014

January 13 -19, 1945



Saturday, January 13, 1945

Bill, Dorothea, and I went to town. Did regular work. Kimball came after the bull to kill.



Sunday, January 14, 1945

Snowed. Bob’s folks here. Rayburn up over the weekend.



Monday, January 15, 1945

Kimball brought the bull back, had liver for supper. Nice day. I churned and wash today.



Tuesday, January 16, 1945

Snowed hard all day and night wind blowed. Bill went to the doctors, blood pressure better, has lost weight.



Wednesday, January 17, 1945

Cooked. Bill, Betty, and I went to town. A cloudy day after the heavy snow. Bill shoveled drifts.



Thursday, January 18, 1945

Papa here sick tonight. Bad eye infection on the eye. Billie home sick with cold. Bill down to Jeans in eve. I cleaned up the house today.



Friday, January 19, 1945

Papa still awful sick. Nice warm day. Bill helped me with the work. We churned.

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