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, October 11, 2018

December 18 - 21, 1968


Wednesday, December 18, 1968

A nice day. I did regular work and worked on Christmas gifts, list etc. In evening Bill and I went down to Stanford’s. Barb was sick, we didn’t stop. So we went down to Dorothea’s to see her tree. She sent her gifts up with us. Gordon, Sally here.



Thursday, December 19, 1968

A nice mild day. I made donuts, fudge. Lloyd called, he brought some apples for Bill. Delores called for a little while. Billie and I called at Aunt Ava’s in evening. I washed, clothes dried good. Billie got $50 bonus check. Alice went to the hospital.



Friday, December 20, 1968 Snow

A snowy day. I worked at Dorothy’s. Came home and cleaned up the house, ironed, washed floors. I figured, wrote out store list etc. Alice Boynton operated on today.



Saturday, December 21, 1968

Cloudy, Billie worked for Lawrence. Bill home at noon. I made a cake. Baked beans.



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