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, April 3, 2017

January 17 - 20, 1963



Thursday, January 17, 1963

Not so cold during the day. It warmed up. We done up the housework. Betty took the car out, she and Jeff went riding. Bob called and Dorothea went away with her for a little while. Betty pretty good. No letter from her old Mike. Dorothea and I called at Ferns in evening.



Friday, January 18, 1963

Milder, cloudy and stormy, snow and sleet. Done up the housework.  In evening Dorothea, Jeff and I to town. Betty has been in a world of her own all day.



Saturday, January 19, 1963

A very nice warm day. I cooked. Dorothea done up the housework. Betty felt better. Bill shoveled off the porch roofs. Barb and Wesley called. No letter from Mike. Betty, Dorothea and I to the movies in evening. Fern came up in the evening.



Sunday, January 20, 1963

Cloudy. Bill called to work about five or six times this morning. Worked all day. We made a oyster stew. Kennie, Dot, Bob and Blanche called. Dorothea down to Barb’s in evening. Betty, Dorothea and I trying to think what to do about Mike.
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