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!

Friday, August 28, 2015

May 1 - 5, 1956



Tuesday, May 1, 1956

A very nice day, I churned, and clean Dorothea’s room. Betty and Holly to movies in the evening. House is an awful mess. Mr. Vince Yates quite sick.



Wednesday, May 2, 1956

I cleaned Betty’s room. A nice day.



Thursday, May 3, 1956

A rainy day. Bill didn’t work. I went to town in a.m. In PM cleaned dark bedroom and my room.



Friday, May 4, 1956

Cloudy, little sun. I cleaned Billie and Donnie’s room. Mary Howard called here for a little while. Over to Dr. in evening for Donnie. Down to Barbs.



Saturday, May 5, 1956

A nice day and I cleaned the setting room. Barb and Phil married today. We moved television to other side of room today. Billie smelting. The first letter from Dorothea after she got to Wyoming. Also a nice box of chocolates. I shopped for Donnie.


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