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!

Monday, October 3, 2016

February 9 - 11, 1961 Raymond's Funeral



Thursday, February 9, 1961

A very nice day. I washed. Cleaned up the whole house, washed my windows, churned and ironed after supper. In p.m. Aunt Ava, Dorothy and I went down to see Raymond. He looked so nice.



Friday, February 10, 1961 Raymond’s Funeral

A nice day, the snow still melting. Today I made a cake, Johnny cake for Mama, a soup. Then got ready to go to Raymond’s funeral. Bill and Billie home at noon. It was a big funeral. He looked very nice. We will miss him so much. Kennard, Delores, Rowena, Kennie and Dot came up today. To town in evening. Betty down to Rowena’s.









Saturday, February 11, 1961

A very nice day. I got my cooking done early. Billie, Betty and I to town, down to Ferns. Over to Lila and Thena’s. I took over a loaf of bread and brownies. Mike came tonight. He stayed all night. Billie felt bad tonight at supper time because only one week ago Raymond was here. We miss him so much. We will always miss him so much.


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