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!

Sunday, April 2, 2017

January 13 - 16, 1963



Sunday, January 13, 1963

About the same temperature. Storm all day. Bill worked. Kennie and Dot called. Billie shoveled. I didn’t get up until about 10 o’clock. Didn’t do very much today.



Monday, January 14, 1963

Cold day. I washed. Dorothea hung them out. In p.m. I churned. Dorothea went with Barbara and Nancy. In evening Betty, Jeff and I to town. Late in evening Betty, Dorothea and I over to Aunt Ava’s and Uncle Lewis’s and showed the movies. Snaps and slides came.



Tuesday, January 15, 1963

A nice sunny day, on the cool side. Dorothea and I did some cooking, Jell-O, rolls, two pies, rolls, cooked meat and a good dinner we had. Fern up for supper. Dorothea gave me a permanent today. Betty on the bleak side. Blanche called.






Wednesday, January 16, 1963 13 below this morning

Today we ironed. Blanche called in a.m. Bob and Nancy and George here in p.m. Betty and I to town in p.m. Betty called on Thelma’s this p.m. Jeff outside today. No letter from Mike.

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