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!

Saturday, October 18, 2014

December 29, 1945 - January 4, 1946 Fire at Aunt Mina's- Cows were saved!



Saturday, December 29, 1945

Snowed. Billie and Milan went to movies. Bill and I went to town in eve.



Sunday, December 30, 1945

Warm. Bill, Milan, Billie, Ronald, and Kenneth Potter went ice fishing. Lloyd took the hams. Auntie not very good.



Monday, December 31, 1945

Rained. Very warm. Bill didn’t work. We washed.





Tuesday, January 1, 1946

Betty sick all day. Nice day. Milan and Raymond Allen gone fishing. Bill back to work.



Wednesday, January 2, 1946

Betty sick. Milan worked the eve at the Mayfair Diner. We did regular work.



Thursday, January 3, 1946

Very cold, nice day. I washed. Dorothea sick in the night. Didn’t go to school. Milan worked at the diner. Betty still sick.



Friday, January 4, 1946

Not so cold. Dot and Forrest and Aunt Mina’s home burned flat this a.m. about 7 o’clock. Cows were saved and moved to Lloyd’s. Saved some furniture.









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