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, July 28, 2015

December 17 - 20, 1955



Saturday, December 17, 1955

Dorothea and I to town in p.m., did some Christmas shopping. Did Billie’s for him too.





Sunday, December 18, 1955

Did up the work, kids to church and Sunday school. Rayburn, Joan and Karen called in p.m. Dorothea down to Ferns in p.m.



Monday, December 19, 1955

I washed, quite cold and windy. Mama got cold, didn’t get up till late.



Tuesday, December 20, 1955

Very nice day but awful cold all day. I got the clothes in, ironed, cooked. Dorothea did some cooking after supper. Dolores called in a.m. Raymond called in evening, also Barb and Philip.



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