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!

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

May 4 - 8, 1954 Betty Out of Hospital



Tuesday, May 4, 1954

Rained. I cleaned living room. Billie bought me a new table lamp and two new shades for Mother’s Day. Bill home at noon bought new arial (?) and put it up.



Wednesday, May 5, 1954

Rained. I done the dining room today. Rose, Bob and Holly down tonight. Chet came and bought Flop Ears today. Betty got home from hospital.



Thursday, May 6, 1954

Began in kitchen cleaning cupboards. Rain.



Friday, May 7, 1954

Cow and calf went today. Elmer Fogg bought them. I cleaned in kitchen, finished cupboards. Got a present from Dorothea. Cloudy and some rain. Billie got his license. Sun out a little while.



Saturday, May 8, 1954

Cleaned in the kitchen. Went to town. Cloudy. Rained in p.m. and night awful hard. Went down to Flecks in evening. Betty stayed down there last night. Fern and Lloyd up in eve.



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