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, June 15, 2016

October 21 - 23, 1959 Surprise Party for Fern



Wednesday, October 21, 1959 Fern Aleta Smith Yates birthday

A very nice day. Dolores called. Raymond too in the a.m. I got ready for party. Made cakes etc. In evening we had a surprise for Fern.

SURPRISE BIRTHDAY FOR FERN. The whole family came, all had a nice time. Fern got a lot of nice gifts.


Althea, Betty and Fern at Fern's surprise party

All gussied up!



Thursday, October 22, 1959

A very nice day. I didn’t do much today. I washed and ironed. Dawn called in p.m. Betty not home tonight.



Friday, October 23, 1959

A cloudy rainy day. I done up the work, cleaned the bathroom downstairs. Went to town in evening.


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