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!

Saturday, March 5, 2016

June 18 - 21, 1958



Wednesday, June 18, 1958

A very windy day, I worked for Mary Saxby cleaning. I got $8.75 for seven hours work.



Thursday, June 19, 1958

Another nice day. I went to work for Priscilla Rushmore $15. I fried donuts. Betty up to Dawn’s. Fern and Lloyd up calling in evening.



Friday, June 20, 1958

Dorothea and Dennis married nine months today. It was cloudy and rainy today. Bill didn’t work. He and I went to town. Called at Dawn’s. Betty did her work at the cottage. Kennard called. Norma Wildberger called here in p.m.

Down to Aunt Delores




Saturday, June 21, 1958

Rained all day. Bill didn’t work. I cooked, done up the house cleaning. Cleared off in p.m.

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