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, November 29, 2018

June 20 - 23, 1969 Carmen Has Scarlatina


Friday, June 20, 1969 $5.00

I worked at Dorothy’s. Carmen has been very sick all day. They took her to the doctors after supper. She has Scarlatina, a form of Scarlet Fever. Her temperature was high.




Saturday, June 21, 1969

Billie worked for Lawrence. Bill mowed lawns and cultivated garden. I baked beans, made bread and rolls. In evening Dorothea and Jeff called. Carmen much better, her fever down. She stayed on the couch all day.



Sunday, June 22, 1969

Up kind of early. Carmen much better this morning.



Monday, June 23, 1969

It was cloudy and it rained. Did up the work. Got my papers all read, did a dite of cooking. It was partly fair in a.m. Rained in p.m. We looked at a place today.


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