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, January 1, 2015

June 7 - 13, 1947



Saturday, June 7, 1947

Fair. Cleaned the kitchen. Mama down to Kennard’s house for supper. Carlton’s birthday.



Sunday, June 8, 1947

Blanche took Dorothea and Betty to movies. First time Betty ever went. Rained. Got pigs over to (?) Elf Holden’s.



Monday, June 9, 1947

Rained hard in a.m., cleared in PM. Mabel Grover and I began to clean at Walter’s. Did four bedrooms and hallway. Down to hospital to see Papa, not good. Billie got a new watch.



Tuesday, June 10, 1947

Fair. Cleaned down to Walters. Papa not so good this morning. Bill and I set out strawberry plants tonight. Fern went to Portland.



Wednesday, June 11, 1947

Cloudy and rainy. We finished up at Walters.



Thursday, June 12, 1947

Papa is very bad, he rallied. Seem to be better.



Friday, June 13, 1947

We didn’t go to hospital. Papa quite down, sort of in a coma and breathing worse. No (?)


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