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, April 20, 2015

June 3 - 9, 1954



Thursday, June 3, 1954

It rained today. Dorothea got up and went down early to visit school.



Friday, June 4, 1954

Rain. Did up just the regular housework. In evening Aunt Ava, Uncle Lewis, Fern and Lloyd came over.



Saturday, June 5, 1954

Rainy. We cooked, went to town in p.m.



Sunday, June 6, 1954

Rained. Then did up the housework. Dorothea came home from Barb. Fern, Lloyd, Uncle Os up in p.m. to watch TV and had a feed.



Monday, June 7, 1954

Nice day. Washed. Planted flower seeds. Esther went down to Ferns. Sarah and Fern came up in afternoon after her.

Susan and Uncle Lloyd - 1954



Tuesday, June 8, 1954

Ironed. Cooked some.



Wednesday, June 9, 1954

Hams came back.
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