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!

Thursday, April 20, 2017

March 25 - 28, 1963



Monday, March 25, 1963

Mild, but cloudy all day. Rain tonight. Betty, Carmen went over to Auburn today and visited with Bennie on his 40th birthday. Thelma went with her. I washed, churned, done up the housework. Fern and Lloyd called. Blanche and girls also Kennard. The enlarged picture of Carmen came today. Mike should have got his pictures of his daughter today.



Tuesday, March 26, 1963

A very nice, fair, warm day. We got the clothes in, ironed. Betty outside doing odds and end jobs. We cleaned the chickens. Fay and Amy down after supper. Betty and I to town after supper.



Wednesday, March 27, 1963

A nice day, showery. I wrote to Dorothea. I cleaned up the house. Betty got a cold. Carmen quite good all day, didn’t sleep much.


Dorothea's house in MI



Thursday, March 28, 1963

Spring day, on the cool side. I wrote another letter to Dorothea. Didn’t get my work done til late p.m. Betty helped, she also made a cake. Fern and Lloyd called.



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