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!

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

November 17 - 20, 1968 Uncle Lewis's Funeral


Sunday, November 17, 1968 Uncle Lewis’s funeral

We all quite busy today. Es and Betty making sandwiches etc. for this afternoon, as we entertained the friends and relatives after the funeral. Uncle Lewis was buried at Elm Vale Cemetery in South Waterford. People here: Aunt Ava, Frances, Herman, Lida, Weldon, Audrey, Malcolm, Kennard, Delores, Fern, Lloyd, Robert, Joy, Buddy and children, Betty, Walt and children, Dorothea, Dave and Jeff. Chub and Clara Gordon, Arnold and Ethel Abbott called. Four Halls friends of Aunt Ava’s and Uncle Lewis’s. Billie, Bill and I.



Monday, November 18, 1968

Cloudy and rain. I went to town with Fern and Lloyd to do my washing. Came home, hung them out. It rained, snow and sleet. They froze. Esther came over from Aunt Ava’s with me for the day. Fern at home cleaning up her house, cooking etc. Took Es home after supper.



Tuesday, November 19, 1968

I did some ironing. Clothes not dry outside yet. Kennard called in PM. Esther, Fern up for supper and evening.



Wednesday, November 20, 1968

I done up my work. Made a lemon sponge pies, made preparations for Esther and Fern to come up here for a T-bone steak supper. Esther came early in PM. She called at Delore’s and Aunt Ava’s. Aunt Ava is doing very well living alone. Esther and Fern enjoyed their supper very much. I get my clothes in and ironed.
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