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, August 31, 2017

September 5 - 8, 1964



Saturday, September 5, 1964

A very nice day, on the cool side. Betty and I over to June Stackhouse’s, downtown. Came home, made biscuits. Fern up for supper. Norma called today. She and her friend Rick took Carmen and Betty for a ride.



Sunday, September 6, 1964

A beautiful day. I done up my regular work. Betty gone all day and all night. Aunt Ava here in p.m. Kennie, Dot, Fern and Lloyd. Billie got the cows up into the field today. He mowed Chet’s hay. Hauled the dump stuff off.



Monday, September 7, 1964 Labor Day

Did a real big wash. Bill and Billie didn’t have to work. A very nice sunny hot day. Fern, Lloyd called. Betty, Carmen and I out in p.m. Came home, had a steak cookout for supper. Billie haying up to Chet’s and for Lawrence. Bill and I called at Ferns.

Nanny raiding Betty's fridge

Carmen with her broken collar bone contraption




Tuesday, September 8, 1964

A nice day. I wrote my letter’s, sent letters and payments etc. To town in p.m. Betty cleaned up her house. Didn’t feel very good.


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