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!

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

August 19 - 21, 1956



Sunday, August 19, 1956

Hot and humid in a.m. And all night rained and cooled off in p.m. and cleared and no humidity in p.m. Milan’s family left for home about 5 AM. Betty to church. Billie worked. Cows got out today, went up to Hayd’s. I ironed. Donnie still sick.



Monday, August 20, 1956

Donnie still sick. I called Dr. Skillings, he said we should go to hospital for surgery. I called his mother. I washed. A nice day. I went to town after Bill got home.



Tuesday, August 21, 1956

A cloudy day. Today Donnie’s father, mother and aunt came for him and took him to the hospital. It was hard seeing him go. He feels as near as my own. I missed him after he went. I churned, cooked and cleaned up the house and ironed. Got package from Dorothea today. Nice gifts.

One of the gifts from Dorothea


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