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, April 5, 2016

November 4 - 8, 1958



Tuesday, November 4, 1958

I washed. Got quite cold.



Wednesday, November 5, 1958

Letter from Dorothea and family. Delores called. I got the clothes in.



Thursday, November 6, 1958

Nice day. Linwood came today and begun on the furnace.



Friday, November 7, 1958

Bill home today. He helped them with the furnace. Got radiators set up. Kennard here today also. To town in late p.m. Mama up to Ken and Delores’s.



Saturday, November 8, 1958

A good day. I washed windows in dining room. Mama and I went to Norway in p.m. with Blanche. Betty stayed at home with Bruce.





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