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, December 2, 2017

September 5 - 8, 1965



Sunday, September 5, 1965

Another very nice sunny day. Betty moved from her trailer home. She didn’t feel too good about it. It was hard. I don’t like it but nothing could be done about it.



Monday, September 6, 1965

A nice hot day, didn’t get up very early. Fern and Lloyd called. Billie, Betty, Carmen and I all over to Lovell to order some RK beans and some pullets. Had a nice ride. Came home, had a good cookout. Lint (?) Cross came to see the car.



Tuesday, September 7, 1965

Did my wash. Went to Norway, made first trailer payment. Went down town. Betty relieve the trailer is off her hands. Bill hooked up the oil burner up to the trailer tonight. Betty took her vacuum cleaner up. Paid First Trailer Payment.



Wednesday, September 8, 1965

A very nice day, on the cool side. Hurricane Betsy came to the coast of Florida and headed for the Gulf of Mexico. I did a big ironing, churned etc. Oilman called with oil for the trailer today.


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