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!

Monday, September 1, 2014

February 3 - 9, 1945



Saturday, February 3, 1945

Very nice day. Warm. We washed floor, cleaned some woodwork, cooked. Billie went to town tonight. Dorothea acted like the devil all day. Betty fussy.



Sunday, February 4, 1945

Betty sick. Fern and Lloyd up. Nice day.



Monday, February 5, 1945

Nice day. We churned. Bill to J. Mama got a bad cold. Betty sick.



Tuesday, February 6, 1945

Bill and I went to town. I washed in p.m. Mama still sick. Betty very sick too. Papa came home from hospital, got to go back.



Wednesday, February 7, 1945

Took down kitchen curtains. Wash them. Nice warm day. Mama went down to Ferns to go to Senior Drama. Thomas got run over by Bill. He was a very good dog, very pretty.



Thursday, February 8, 1945

Snowing today. Betty broken out. I ironed curtains. Bill took his car to work. Very bad storm. Not very cold. Sara to senior play.



Friday, February 9, 1945

New England buried in snow. Bill only worked two hours because of storm. Not very cold.


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