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, August 23, 2019

April 10 - 12, 1972 Zak Home From Hospital


Monday, April 10, 1972

A nice sunny day. I washed. Down to Betty’s, we cleaned the shed chamber. I did some more washing in p.m. Called at Fern and Lloyd’s in evening with Betty. Walt called on Zak today. Snow settled a lot today. Zak was so homesick when Walt was there today.



Tuesday, April 11, 1972

Another nice day except for some cloudiness during the day. Betty came up early, we went to town, tried to get some shelf paper. Couldn’t so we went to Norway. Got what we wanted over there. Came home at 11. Got Kimmy lunch and Bill’s. Then we got to cleaning cupboards, got the top dish cupboards all done at 1:30. They had the electric power off for a couple hours in p.m. In p.m. Betty and I and Esther went with us, went to Raymond to grocery shop. Down to Ferns in evening and done a little job for her.



Wednesday, April 12, 1972 Kimberly six years, Zak home

A quite nice sunny day. Betty got ready and went to Portland to see Zak. Kim came up here. Betty brought Zak home. He wasn’t at all good. I didn’t get much done, poor Zak. He wasn’t at all good. He should not have come home. Today Kimberly Allie Horton became six years old. Kim has got to go back to the hospital. Zak is so sick, also home sick.



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