Saturday, February 12, 1944
Snowed. Bill and Billie went to town. Bill bought me a very pretty box of Valentine chocolates..... (apparently they did ..... even in 1944!)
Sunday, February 13, 1944
Kennie and Dot came up and kids. Bob and Joy. Kennard and Dolores all called on us. Bill home. Raymond came over in eve.
Monday, February 14, 1944
Billie and Dorothea went to school, got a lot of valentines. Betty got some in the mail to. I washed. Cold.
Tuesday, February 15, 1944
Did regular work. Awful wind blow.
Wednesday, February 16, 1944
I went to beauty parlor. got a permanent wave. Baby has bad cold. Mama sick too. Dorothea home. 9 doz S.Y.
Thursday, February 17, 1944
Betty 1 year old today. She is sick with cold. Mama sick to. Billie to school. Dorothea home. I talked with Miss Gould. Warm tonite.
Friday, February 18, 1944
Washed, machine broke again. Dorothea went down to Ferns to stay til Sun. Talked with Jean. Charlie up to hear Fred Wooly (?) speech.
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!
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!
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