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!

Saturday, July 26, 2014

May 20 - 26, 1944



Saturday, May 20, 1944 

Finish cleaning sitting room. Dolores had a bad day. Bill and Dorothea went to town. Warm.


Sunday, May 21, 1944

Bill worked. Mama and Dorothea went to see Dolores at hospital with Kennard and Wyvern. Nice day. Betty Louise sick.


Monday, May 20, 1944

Rained, clearing tonight. Betty real sick today. Broken out with measles. Dorothea back to school after measles.


Tuesday, May 23, 1944

Baby still sick. Plowed and harrowed garden. Benson did it with his tractor. I called on Minnie tonight.


Wednesday, May 24, 1944

I clean the dining room. Nice day. Bill’s check $96.


Thursday, May 25, 1944

Set out dahlias. I cleaned kitchen. Set up till Bill came home. Nice day. Billie didn’t have to go to school in p.m.


Friday, May 26, 1944

Billie home sick also mama is sick. Bill stayed home from work to plant. Bill and I went to town at noon. I cleaned shed. Bill and Billie went fishing. Hot. Dolores came home from the hospital.

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