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, January 18, 2016

December 11, 1957 Donnie Leaves Home



Wednesday, December 11, 1957 DONNIE WENT on Susan’s birthday

His father and mother came for him at about 11:30 AM. He was already. He looked so nice. A very pretty youngster. I hated terribly to see him go. It was so hard. He went away with a happy smile. Bill and Kennard worked on Christmas trees. Billie got through at Chet’s tonight. A nice day. I washed back porch floor and grain room floor.






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