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!

Thursday, February 19, 2015

May 15 - 21, 1948 Joy Home From Hospital



Saturday, May 15, 1948

Rained. Bill didn’t work. Didn’t do much. Downtown in eve.



Sunday, May 16, 1948

Bills father and mother here all day. Fair in forenoon. Rained in p.m. Billie’s cow went. Joy came home.



Monday, May 17, 1948

Rained. Washed. Cleaned the china closet. Bill nor Billie didn’t work.



Tuesday, May 18, 1948

Cleaned cupboards in kitchen. Bill’s father and mother up in eve. Rained. Joy here today. Dorothea got her shoes.

Joy and Dorothea when they were little



Wednesday, May 19, 1948

Cold and cloudy, windy. We cleaned Mama’s bedroom. Bill worked and Billie.



Thursday, May 20, 1948

Cloudy. Cold showers. Bill didn’t work. I cooked rhubarb pie and chocolate cake. Mama canned rhubarb.



Friday, May 21, 1948

Bill worked 2/3 of the day. It was cloudy and cold and awful rain showers in p.m. Uncle Lewis came down. I went up to his house with him. Fern, Sara and I went down to Scouts time in eve. Very good.


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  1. NormaFebruary 20, 2015 at 9:35 AM

    Joy and Dorothea look so adorable. Why was Joy in hospital?

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