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!

Friday, May 26, 2017

August 18 - 20, 1963



Sunday, August 18, 1963

A nice day, on the cool side. Didn’t get up very early. Betty and Mike and Carmen to town to say goodbye. I cooked a fried chicken supper. Billie worked around home all day. Bill down to Fern and Lloyd’s. Kennie, Dot, Fern, Lloyd, Nola, Nona and Jeff, Bob and Blanche called. Mike will be leaving us tomorrow.



Monday, August 19, 1963 MIKE LEFT

A nice day. At 6 PM Betty, Blanche, Carmen and I left home to take Mike to Logan airport to take American Airlines jet plane to Oakland California to be gone exactly 11 months to a day. We miss him tonight. We will be so glad when he gets back. This is his last time to go and leave his wife and baby. We all enjoyed the trip except to see him go. Mama at Ferns.

Mike and Carmen



Blanche and Nanny with Mike and Carmen

The Boutilier Family - Mike, Carmen and Betty


 


Tuesday, August 20, 1963

Rained all day. Churned. I went to town with Fern and Lloyd. We got Mike’s papers off today. We missed Mike today. Kennie, Dot and Wanda up in evening. Betty and I to town, Wanda went too.




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