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!

Saturday, June 17, 2017

November 14- 17, 1963



Thursday, November 14, 1963

Fair. Well I got Dorothea’s letter started. I cleaned up the house, also cleaned the back porch.



Friday, November 15, 1963

Fair, cooler. I got Dorothea’s letter off. I cleaned up the house. Bonnie here today to work at 3 PM. Got a letter from Dorothea and Esther. Grace walked real good today. $49. Smoked shoulders came tonight.



Saturday, November 16, 1963

I cooked a little. Had to go to work at one. Home at 8, sat up till one. Baby got me up at 3 AM. Betty down town for the night. Fern up in evening. Got a letter from Esther, Billie is in the hospital with pneumonia.



Sunday, November 17, 1963

Nice and sunny. I didn’t get up too early. Got dinner. Verna and children called. Betty took Carmen to doctors. He said it must be her teeth. To work at 3 PM. Put the smoked shoulders downstairs. I went to work and worked till 10. Dog tired when I came home. Fern called Esther.


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