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!

Sunday, September 7, 2014

March 17 - 23, 1945



Saturday, March 17, 1945

Very nice day snow went a lot today. Papa called in p.m.



Sunday, March 18, 1945

Very nice warm day snow went a lot. Jean, Charlie, Dolores, Bob, Ronald, Joy, Dot, Rayburn, and Papa all called. Ilan fixed Bill’s car. Fern and Lloyd up in p.m.



Monday, March 19, 1945

Rained all day. Bill back to work. We washed.



Tuesday, March 20, 1945

Still raining. Up to Minnie’s in eve.



Wednesday, March 21, 1945

Still raining. Washed again today. Been working on puzzle.



Thursday, March 22, 1945

Billie 14 years today. Rained hard and cold. Billie got card from Fern and $1 from Jean. Card from Esther. He went to movies. Four kittens born today.



Friday, March 23, 1945

Bill and I went to town. Still rainy. We cooked. Dorothea went over to Fern’s from school.


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