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, June 25, 2017

December 17 - 20, 1963



Tuesday, December 17, 1963

A cold cold day. 10 below this morning. I finished the cards this morning, got them off. Dave and Dawn called. To work, went to the bank for Billie. Betty took Carmen to the doctors today. She got her second shot.




Wednesday, December 18, 1963

Cleared off nice, then clouded up. Carmen very sick all day. We didn’t get any work done. Blanche came over to stay with Carmen while Betty took me to work. Cloudy in PM.



Thursday, December 19, 1963

Zero this morning, not too cold during the day. Wind came up in p.m. and it got real cold. Betty got Aunt Ava’s tree over to her today, also got one for Aunt Fern and decorated it. I finally got the house gone over today, to work at three. Letter from Dorothea. Wood came, one cord.



Friday, December 20, 1963

A nice day, very cold and windy. I washed. Had to go to town, got Billie’s cards off to Dorothea, Dennis, Jeff and Mike for him. I came home and rushed around to work. Billie got his bills paid up today for the year. He feels so much better. $49.


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