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!

Sunday, August 4, 2019

January 31 - February 3, 1972


Monday, January 31, 1972

A call from Betty to see if I could go to Portland with her. She went shopping for Carmen’s birthday. Kim and Carmen went and Zak. We stopped at Dorothea’s and took her with us. Jeff is going to school in PM. He has improved in his schoolwork a lot. We saw Pat in Portland. Didn’t have much luck today, stores didn’t have much in them. Inventory etc. In evening Billie and I called at Ferns. She is a lot better. Bill lame this morning.




Tuesday, February 1, 1972 Kim to school in a.m.

A nice day. Today Kim started morning school. She has to get up early to get ready, leaves at 7:45 with Carmen. I cleaned up the house, did some washing. It has been sunny and mild. Clothes dried good. Bill and I to town this morning to get him some pills. He is quite lame. Frances and Herman are leaving today to go to Florida. Lila is very bad in the hospital. Got to have an operation. Kim up this p.m.



Wednesday, February 2, 1972

Fair kind of a day. Some sun and cloudiness. In a.m. Betty, Zak and I went to Giants in Norway. Came home. I got supper to going. I did a wash. Bill so awful lame, called Es and Fern this evening. A pretty good call (?) day. I walked down to Betty’s this morning.



Thursday, February 3, 1972 LILA

Cloudy, mild. It began to snow in late p.m. I done regular work. Did a little washing. Watched TV shows in p.m. Bill still awful lame. Lila had a very serious operation. A brain tumor, it was malignant.



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