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!

Monday, February 11, 2019

April 2 - 5, 1970




Thursday, April 2, 1970 Mama been gone six years

A very bad nasty day, snow all forenoon then turned to rain. We got about 6 inches. I went to town with Lloyd. Didn’t go down to Betty’s. I worked at my scraps. Mama has been gone from us 6 years today. I think of her a lot.


Friday, April 3, 1970

Partly cloudy. Windy. A mess after yesterday’s storm. I washed and waxed kitchen floor. Called at Betty’s a little while. Betty took me to town tonight. Kim broken out real bad with chickenpox.



Saturday, April 4, 1970

A nice day. Billie went with Lawrence. Bill down to Jim’s TV. I made rolls, baked beans. Babysat at Betty and Walt’s. TV did not come today.



Sunday, April 5, 1970

A nice day. Billie and I went down to Dorothea’s. Billie took his pants down. Dave starts working days tomorrow. Fern, Lloyd called. Zak not feeling too good.

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