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!

Sunday, March 20, 2016

August 25 - 28, 1958



Monday, August 25, 1958

Rain. I didn’t wash. Pat Sanjuleo came up today from Portland for a week to visit. Betty, Norma had a good time with them.



Tuesday, August 26, 1958

I washed. Cloudy, some rain. I done some cooking. Betty, Pat over to Harrison. Norma down to Ferns all day. Fern and Lloyd brought Norma home in evening. Aunt Ava, Uncle Lewis called. Aunt Linnie getting bad.



Wednesday, August 27, 1958

Aunt Linnie very low. Cleared off early this a.m. I cooked, churned, done up the housework. Betty and Pat down town in a.m., gone camping in p.m. and all night. Bill Walsh, Aunt Ava and Kennard called. Norma didn’t do much. I got letter from child welfare.



Thursday, August 28, 1958

Cooked. Churned. Betty and Pat went to Naples to the horse ranch. Aunt Linnie not very good.

An addition to Nanny's Diary by her Great Granddaughter, Brogan, in 1989



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