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!

Friday, November 9, 2018

April 2 - 5, 1969 Eisenhower Buried


Wednesday, April 2, 1969 President Eisenhower buried today

Cold and cloudy. In late p.m. it cleared. I done up regular work, made a couple pies and tarts. I cooked a chicken stew for supper. I watched the last of the programs of General Eisenhower’s funeral. He was buried at last out in Abilene, Kansas from where he started from. He was (I feel) the greatest man of this country. He liked everyone and everyone liked him. If only there were more men like him, this country needs them and bad. I called at Aunt Ava’s this evening.



Thursday, April 3, 1969 Peg, Susan and Betty and Jim

Mild temperatures. A nice sunny day, I washed, finished reading papers, magazines. Jean comes home today after being away all winter in Lynn, Massachusetts working. I called at Ferns in evening while Billie went to get his haircut. Lame back.



Friday, April 4, 1969 $4.50

I worked at Dorothy’s this forenoon. Pat Linscott called, Red Cross. I worked at my desk. Got supper, went to town after supper. Fern and Lloyd called. Been kind of cloudy. Got a Easter card and Norma Gay’s wedding pictures from Betty today. Kennard called.





Saturday, April 5, 1969

It was showery here in a.m. Cleared late in PM. Billie didn’t work. He went to Kezar Falls with Lawrence. Bill and I to town in p.m.

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