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, March 24, 2015

1949


Nanny didn't have diaries from 1949-1953. So - to make the leap from  1948 - 1954, I thought I would post some photos with updates from each year. This is some photo hi-lites from 1949.


Donnie Ayers came to live with the family 





Brud and Verna  1949

Lottie McKeen Luck died August 16, 1949

Esther pregnant with Susan, and Betty- Summer 1949


Susan Deming is born

Christmas Day - no snow!

See more photos from 1949 on our webpage

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