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, November 10, 2014

June 8 - 14, 1946 Billie Graduates Junior High



Saturday, June 8, 1946

Cleaned up the house, didn’t work today at Walters. Showers in a.m.



Sunday, June 9, 1946

Fair. Bill worked on strawberries. We washed. Billie puttering around doing odd jobs. Awfully windy.



Monday, June 10, 1946

Back down to Walters. Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis called here for supper. Baker shoed Bruce. Windy in a.m.



Tuesday, June 11, 1946

Worked at Walters.



Wednesday, June 12, 1946

Worked at Walters and finished up at the big house at the lake. Very nice day.



Thursday, June 13, 1946

I went to the beauty parlor and got a wave. Blanche took me down. Mama picked over and we canned 5 quarts of spinach greens.



Friday, June 14, 1946

Billie graduated from B. J. H. S. Mama and I went with Fern also Rayburn. Very nice day. He and I went over to Aunt Linnie’s in. p.m.
Billie's graduation picture. What a handsome fella!!!
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