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 14, 2017

October 23 - 26, 1965



Saturday, October 23, 1965

A nice day. Bill started his vacation the noon for a week. We’ll see what he can do about the well at the trailer.



Sunday, October 24, 1965

A cold day. Didn’t do too much. Kennie and Dot called. We didn’t do too much. Took it easy.



Monday, October 25, 1965

I washed, clothes dried good. Space flight. It didn’t go up. Had trouble. Betty sick all day on the couch. Called Dr. Richards. Had to go down town in evening for medicine for Carmen and Betty. In PM I went down town and paid some bills for Billie.



Tuesday, October 26 1965

Bill and Gordon working over to the spring, digging it out and cleaning it out. I done the ironing. Billie worked for Lawrence. Betty didn’t feel very good.



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