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!

Sunday, June 21, 2015

May 31 - June 4, 1955



Tuesday, May 31, 1955

Picked up and cleaned up some of the house. Bill didn’t have to work. Dorothea, Bill and I to town and Donnie. Dorothea drove.



Wednesday, June 1, 1955

I cooked, cleaned up the house. Dorothea visited school. I ironed.


Thursday, June 2, 1955

Cloudy and kind of cold. I did a very big wash. Phil and Barb called. Called over to Carlson place after supper. Dorothea down to Barb’s for the night.


Friday, June 3, 1955

Very nice day. I churned and got the clothes in. Dorothea went to last senior high school assembly. We did a big ironing. Delores called in eve. D. B. And Bill went looking for a job.



Saturday, June 4, 1955

Cooked, went to town. Did up the work. Dorothea and Bill painted Dorothea’s bedroom. Betty went to movies in eve, in afternoon too.
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