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, March 31, 2018

December 23 - 26, 1966 Last Christmas at the Farm (or so Nanny thought)



Friday, December 23, 1966 Cold

Snow warnings for tomorrow. I did my cooking, washed windows, floor and cleaned all up. Dorothea wrapped Christmas gifts. Betty rearranging the gifts around the tree. Kim is real good. I went to town to do a little more shopping. It is so awful hard to believe about Kennie. He will be missed so much. I hope he will find eternal happiness, no pain or suffering. He will, he is with the other loved ones who have gone.



Saturday, December 24, 1966 Kennie’s Funeral

Clear and nice in a.m. It began to cloud up in PM. Kennie’s funeral today at Lackees. It was a terribly sad day for this family. We all loved him and will miss him so much. After the service we went down to Raymond’s house. A lot of people were there. He had beautiful flowers and a lot of them. Dorothea and I to town in a.m. to do a little more shopping. Came home. Got the dinner. Got ready to go to the funeral. Bill called out at 9:30 tonight to go plowing. Dave here in evening. Betty and girls here tonight. Mike called at Betty’s with things for the girl’s Christmas. It evening Bennie and Lou called and left a lot of things for them.



Sunday, December 25, 1966

Snowed in a.m. Bill got back about 7 AM after plowing all night. Here until 9 AM. We got our packages all open. Fern and Lloyd here. Carmen and Jeff awake at 4 AM so we had to get up so early. Betty and girls here all last night. We had a nice dinner. Turkey, stuffing, mashed potato, turnips, peas, onions, celery, olives, pickles, salad, hot rolls. Custard pie, date filled pie, whipped cream cake, cookies, ice cream. Jean, Fern, Lloyd and Dave was here for dinner. In p.m. Bob, Joy, Buddy and girls called. Dot, Lorraine, Wanda and Karen and Delores here in p.m. We miss Kennie so much. He was here a year ago and every Christmas we ever had at home here. Christmas will never be the same. We all got such nice gifts.
Dorothea and David




Jeff, Debbie Wolff, Buddy Wolff, Carmen, Laurie Wolff, Karen Smith, Wanda Harmon

Nanny Billie, Delores and Carmen

Nanny and her granddaughters

Fern, Delores, Dot, Lloyd and Nanny

Bob, Fern, Delores, Dot and Do you see Nanny??

The engaged couple

Nanny back to, Carmens head, Jeff, Fern, Lloyd, Dorothea and David

Billie with his nieces and nephew

Nanny's 3 kids (and future son in law) and 3 grandkids

Nanny and Poppa with their grandchildren

Kim and Carmen



Monday, December 26, 1966

A nice day. Didn’t do much. Boutilier girls were here. Betty and Dave here for dinner. Joy called. Bill and I rode over on to Maple Ridge by the trailer. Came home, Dorothea and Jeff down to Barb’s. Billie called at Ferns.

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