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!

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

October 13 - 19, 1945 Milan discharged from Army



Saturday, October 13, 1945

Lorraine, Dorothea, and Esther had dinner in the Deming trailer. We moved some chicks down from upstairs. Nice day.



Sunday, October 14, 1945

Cliff and Esther here all day. Rained. Milan telephoned tonight from Oklahoma.

Milan on the bottom.

Monday, October 15, 1945

Nice day. Hauled the pulpwood. Carlton went back. Es and Cliff went back down to Ferns in p.m. Bill and I went to town got Dorothea shoes. Milan got his discharge from Army today.



Tuesday, October 16, 1945

We did a big wash. It rained hard. Aunt Ava and Cliff called in p.m. a few minutes.



Wednesday, October 17, 1945

Nice forenoon. I washed. Clouded up in p.m. Billie and Rayburn went hunting again.



Thursday, October 18, 1945

Es and Cliff left this morning for Florida. Poor Es hated to go. We did another big wash.



Friday, October 19, 1945

Nice day. We ironed all day. Kennard and Dolores up in eve. Mama went up to Cold River with Auntie, Fern, and Aunt Ava.
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)