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, December 28, 2017

December 18 - 21, 1965



Saturday, December 18, 1965

A nice day. Betty and I to town and Betty over to Norway to do her shopping. She finished the Christmas, came home, had supper. After supper she took Lloyd’s car back and I went down to do some more settling in her apartment.



Sunday, December 19, 1965 MOVED

A little more sunshine. BETTY and CARMEN moved out today bag and baggage. Bill Walsh’s funeral today. Fern and Lloyd, Jean and I went. It is dreadful quiet here tonight. Albert Graham helped Betty move.



Monday, December 20, 1965

A cold, cold morning. Zero when we got up at 7:30. Betty had the car downtown and it wouldn’t start. She got it started about 11 and they came up. Carmen home sick some last night. I did my wash down with Betty to the apartment. Fern, Lloyd and Kennard called also.



Tuesday, December 21, 1965

A very cold, cold morning. Cold all day. Betty, Carmen, Fern and I to Portland and done their shopping at stamp stores. Had a good time. Carmen on the tired and not feeling too good. Bill got a check from Jean for $20 for Christmas.


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