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, August 21, 2019

April 4 - 6, 1972 Zak has surgery


Tuesday, April 4, 1972 ZAK TO BE OPERATED ON

A cloudy stormy miserable day. I done up regular work or part of it. Down to Betty’s at 6:45. Walt left to go to Augusta to an important meeting. Betty left to go to the hospital to be with Zak. He was in the operating room room from 8 AM to 10:30 AM. He came through okay and doctors said he was fine. Betty saw Zak, he smiled at her. Dorothea went in with her too. In late p.m. E.W. Noyes came with our safe and Betty’s. Dorothea came to stay overnight. We are going tomorrow to get some information on family records. Kennard called in PM. Betty in evening. Kim went to school from here.



Wednesday, April 5, 1972 Zak quite good today. Walt saw him

A nice sunny morning. It seems so good to see the sun. Got up real early. Dorothea went and got the clothes out early. We got the work done up and was on our way before 9 o’clock. We went to Ava Hunt’s at North Waterford. To East Stoneham to Barkers for records and no one was at home. Then we went to Lovell to Howard Allen’s, got a lot of information there. Also went to the town clerk’s office at Lovell Center and got some information there. Went back to Waterford and to East Stoneham and still no one home at those places. Went to Norway and left some papers there at one of the Stone girls to be filled out and to be sent to Dorothea. Had a good time. Esther went with us.



Thursday, April 6, 1972 saw Zak today at MMC

Nice and sunny when we got up. But it got cloudy. Betty and I to Portland to do Kim’s birthday shopping. Then went to see Zak. He looks so pitiful and lonely. He was glad to see us. It was like tearing an arm and leg off to leave him. Came home, got supper. We enjoyed Dorothea’s visit with us.



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