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!

Monday, July 28, 2014

June 3 - 9, 1944



Saturday, June 3, 1944 

Mama went down to Kennard’s. Carlton leaves tonight to go back. Very cold and windy. Finished hauling our dressing. School kept today to make up for Monday. Had a bad frost.


 Sunday, June 4, 1944 

Mama went down to Kennard’s to stay with Dolores, she isn’t so well. Bill stayed at home. Begun to fence. Took two small heifers over to Lee Gray’s pasture. Still cold had another frost.

Some of Bill and Billie's cattle  1941


Monday, June 5, 1944 

I washed. Bill home. Bill, Raymond and Herbert Allen are fencing. We went down to Jean’s in evening. Warm.


Tuesday, June 6, 1944

Minnie came down in eve. Invasion started. Bill still home fencing. A lot hotter today. Jerrie Pride get killed by a tractor.


Wednesday, June 7, 1944

I finished setting out dahlias and planted flower seeds. Cold today. Dorothea had first mess of strawberries.


Thursday, June 8, 1944
(Holstein cow) Finished fencing today. Made ice cream after supper. Raymond came in with Bill and had some.


 Friday, June 9, 1944

Got a letter from Milan today. Bill back to work today. Mama came home from Kennard’s tonight. Dolores a little better.
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