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, January 30, 2017

May 11 - 14, 1962



Friday, May 11, 1962

I finished painting the hallway, got some of the living room settled, finished it after I got home from town. Got the new curtains up. Billie went smelting tonight. Kennard called in evening. Mama didn’t feel too well today. Nothing serious.



Saturday, May 12, 1962

Pretty good day. On the cool side. I cooked, washed dining room and kitchen floor, dusted living room, cleaned a lot of smelts. Kennard called. Billie gone all day. Fern and Kennard here for supper. Fern here till midnight. I sent Betty’s box.



Sunday, May 13, 1962

A very nice day, later in p.m. the wind came up. On the whole a very nice day. I finished the painting in the hallway. Picked the first mess of dandelions today. Bill worked at Gordon’s. Billie cleaned his car and fixed pigpen. Blanche called, Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis also.



Monday, May 14, 1962

Rained all day. I washed. Dot, Lorraine and Wanda Jean called, also Blanche and Lloyd. I wrote to Betty and Dorothea. Sent Uncle Lewis’s birthday cards. Bill gave me $10 tonight to get a cover for green chair. Bill got the lawnmower tonight. Art and Joan have another girl, born at 3 PM Mother’s Day. Got a pretty card from the Adair’s. A nice letter from Betty and Mike and some nice pictures. One week ago tonight Dorothea and family called.




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