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, November 10, 2015

March 15 - 18, 1957



Friday, March 15, 1957!

Cloudy. Forrest done the dining room ceiling, all done and it looks very good. Dorothea didn’t come today either. It evening Bill and I went down and paid Forrest for his work. Spent the evening. Kennard called an afternoon. Edna Randall died today, Donnie’s grandmother.




Saturday, March 16, 1957

Billie took me to town in forenoon. I sent for curtains for dining room and living room. In p.m. I cooked, washed floor. Betty and Bill over to Denmark in p.m. Billie sick today. Cloudy and rained in forenoon.



Sunday, March 17, 1957

A fair day. I cleaned up the house. Betty to church and S. S. Billie got his car fixed up. He is better. Raymond Leavitt called today.



Monday, March 18, 1957

A very nice day. I washed. And wrote some letters. Today we Heard from DOROTHEA. She is okay. She didn’t get onto the hop plane. Tonight Fern, Blanche, Joy and I went to the B. J. H. S. Spring concert. It was very good.
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