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!

Thursday, August 7, 2014

August 12 - 18, 1944



Saturday, August 12, 1944

A terribly hot day.



Sunday, August 13, 1944

A terribly hot day. Fern up for dinner. Also Fern + Lloyd up and we had supper out back in the open cooked over open fire. Dorothea with Bob’s folks.



Monday, August 14, 1944

Didn’t do much work. Poppa stayed down here all night. Still awfully hot.



Tuesday, August 15, 1944

D Day # 2 invasion on southern France. Billie went down to Jean’s, George’s, and Thena’s on his bike. Dolores up in p.m.


Wednesday, August 16, 1944

Hotter today. Raymond called in eve. Papa’s house was moved onto his farm this eve.



Thursday, August 17, 1944

Hot. Take kids to dintiest (sp). Blanche called this morning. Dorothea still at Ferns. Bill and Billie put electric fence up. Kennie, Lorraine, and Dot called.



Friday, August 18, 1944

A little cooler. Washed kitchen floor, picked beans, ironed, washed.




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