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, October 6, 2014

October 6 - 12, 1945



Saturday, October 6, 1945

Rayburn and Billie tended chickens all day. Put up yard. Dry and warm. Mama cooked.



Sunday, October 7, 1945

Rained hard all day. Bill, Billie, Betty and I went over to the Elmer Foggs to see cattle. Dorothea went to Sunday school.



Monday, October 8, 1945

We washed. Judy went. Bill’s arm very bad. He went to Dr. Mabry.

Judy the cow with Billie and Dorothea in 1943

Tuesday, October 9, 1945

Ilan and Minnie’s baby born early this morning. Showers today.



Wednesday, October 10, 1945

Bill and I cleaned out the chicken pen. Nice day. Val has the mumps. Murray came $50 he paid us.



Thursday, October 11, 1945

Bill and I went to town. Es and Cliff came up in eve to spend weekend after they with Fern visited at Kennard and Dolores.



Friday, October 12, 1945

I called up to Minnie’s to see the new baby. Es cooked. Dolores and Carlton up in p.m. All hands looked at Milan’s things. Rained.


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