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!

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

November 26 - 29, 1963 Thanksgiving



Tuesday, November 26, 1963

Cold. I had to wash again. Carmen was sick and threw up all over her bed and mine.



Wednesday, November 27, 1963

Today I got up real early. I cooked for Thanksgiving etc. etc. I worked. Milan’s family came at about 12:30.



Thursday, November 28, 1963 Thanksgiving

A nice day. We had a phone call from Jeffrey and Dorothea for Thanksgiving. It was so nice talking to them. Milan, Betty and Norma here for dinner. We had: turkey, roast pork, gravies, mashed potato, sweet potato, turnips, onions, peas, celery, pickles, salad, rolls and dark bread. Date filled pie, cream puffs, white cake, chocolate cake, ice cream vanilla and chocolate, donuts and cookies, tea and coffee. Kennie and Dot called and Blanche. I didn’t have to work.



Friday, November 29, 1963

Cloudy in a.m., began to rain about noon. To town in p.m. No cooking or preparing supper. I went to work today. Rained so hard. $42.


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