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!

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

January 21 - 25, 1959



Wednesday, January 21, 1959

Clouded up in p.m. and stormed. Bill worked for Jim. He and Billie took some beans to Raymond for him. I did my washing. Mrs. Bertha Yates died tonight at 9:15. Made out order for Sears. Bruce gone two weeks today.



Thursday, January 22, 1959 Letter from Ann Kalwell

Rained hard this forenoon. Bad road conditions. No school. Betty up to Dawn’s all day. I finished order to Sears and sent it. I washed Billie’s floors, windows, settled his room. Billie to town in late p.m. I sent Sears letter. Kennard called. Kay up here tonight.

Today I got a letter from Miss Ann Kalwell telling me about Bruce. I still miss him so much. The nice letter helped a lot.



Friday, January 23, 1959

I cleaned Mama’s bedroom, the bathroom. Looks so nice. In evening Gordon and Sally called.



Saturday, January 24, 1959

A nice day. I churned, ironed, cooked. In p.m. Bill and I went to Mrs. Yate’s funeral. She looked very nice. Pretty flowers and a lot of people there. Betty to movies in evening.



Sunday, January 25, 1959

Fair, not too cold. Cooked, cleaned up the house, wrote letters in p.m. Lloyd called in a.m. Raymond called in evening.


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