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, November 11, 2014

June 15 - 21, 1946



Saturday, June 15, 1946

Summer vacation began today. Nice day. Canned some more spinach greens. Lloyd’s birthday.



Sunday, June 16, 1946

Very nice day. Milan and Carlton telephoned from Florida. Kennard and Dolores here and talked too. We mowed the lawns.



Monday, June 17, 1946

Very hot. We did a very big wash and ironed. Dorothea very sick all day. I ironed in eve.



Tuesday, June 18, 1946

Showers in forenoon. Helen and I began cleaning at Flashaw (?)house. Dorothea better today.



Wednesday, June 19, 1946

Nice day. Still cleaning. Fern came down here to see us!



Thursday, June 20, 1946

Seaber (?) called and paid us this p.m.



Friday, June 21, 1946

We finished cleaning tonight at the Flashaw house.

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