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, December 25, 2014

April 19 - 25, 1947



Saturday, April 19, 1947

Sunshine but cold. Papa called. Dorothea still sick



Sunday, April 20th 1947



Cold and snowy today. Dolores called. Fern and Lloyd, Kennard, Kennie, Rayburn, Bob and Hayd up in eve. Robert and Ava called and got a chick brooder. Had smelts for dinner.



Monday, April 21, 1947

Cold awful cold. Washed. Betty very sick. Mama not feeling good. Dorothea still sick. Billie and Val begun fencing. Bill working.



Tuesday, April 22, 1947

Fair. Not so cold. Billie and Val still fencing. Star Hall called.



Wednesday, April 23, 1947

Cloudy and cold. Kids still sick. Mama sick.



Thursday, April 24, 1947

Cold and windy. Tony and Juanita show came to town, had a big crowd.



Friday, April 25, 1947

Another cold day. Bob came up with a bag of grain. Dorothea caught trout, her first one.

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