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 14, 2014

May 5 - 11, 1945 15 Inches of SNOW in May!



Saturday, May 5, 1945

Cleared off tonight. First time for four weeks. Rayburn up the weekend. I dusted and dry mopped. Billie and Rayburn went to show. Ilan fixed tractor. I was up to call on Minnie’s. She is a little better.



Sunday, May 6, 1945

All the folks called up here today. Ruth Chadbourne buried today, she died last Friday. Bill, Billie, and Lloyd hauled dressing and plowed with new tractor.



Monday, May 7, 1945

Goden up today. Nice day. We washed. V. E. Day announced unofficially. Aunt Mina and Dorothy up in eve.



Tuesday, May 8, 1945

V E DAY -officially announced by Pres. Truman and Prime Minister Churchill. Russians were still fighting til one min past 6 P.M.  E. W. Time. It rained this P.M. I cleaned the milk room.



Wednesday, May 9, 1945

Cold but kind of cloudy. I cleaned the grain room. Bill planted some garden.



Thursday, May 10, 1945

Rained all day cold. In late p.m. it began to snow and by the end of the storm it snowed 15 inches.



Friday, May 11, 1945

Snowed all day and colder than the devil. A miserable day. Bill whitewashed the ceilings upstairs and he and I papered the hallway. No school.
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