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, October 18, 2016

April 9 - 11, 1961





Sunday, April 9, 1961

Beautiful day. Bill, Billie and Betty cleaned up the yard and clean the cars. Dot, Kennie, Pat and kids, Dawn, David, Linda and sister here. Steve here over weekend. Blanche called. Linda here all night. Art called. 

Bonnie Denning and Betty
Linda Berry



Monday, April 10, 1961

A cloudy stormy miserable day. Snowed. I cleaned up the whole house. Mrs. Oberg and the FHA girls came up to watch the TV. Rest of the FHA girls were on.






Tuesday, April 11, 1961

About 5 inches of snow this morning. Cloudy all day, kind of windy, on the cold side. I washed, churned, done up housework. Lloyd cut up the beef. I wrapped it. Betty home today from school. After school Linda came, also Mike came. They are going to stay all night and David. Lamb is cunning. $47. Mike’s father gone to Clyde Boutilier’s funeral up to Canada.
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