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, November 27, 2019

March 31 - April 3, 1973


Saturday, March 31, 1973

Cloudy and some fog. Lloyd called this morning. I done regular work. Bill and Billie did a lot of raking and cleaning up outside. Billie washed the garage all out good. Betty, Walt and kids cleaned up their yard. Worked hard all day. Chickens are doing well. Betty, Walt and family called. Carmen up and called in PM. Jean just the same, her mind isn’t too good.



Sunday, April 1, 1973

Cloudy all day and late in p.m. it began to rain. I done regular work. Made a lemon meringue pie. Cooked a roast pork, it was very good. Billie did fencing. Stan called early this morning. Fern, Lloyd called and the Hortons. This p.m. I got a call from Dorothea. Dennis’s brother Freddie died from a overdose of sleeping pills. He has been in poor health for a long while. Jeff is quite upset about it. I feel sorry for them all concerned.



Monday, April 2, 1973 HEAVY RAIN, Mamma gone nine years today

Betty, Zak and I to Portland, we took Dorothea and we went shopping etc. Betty shopped for Kim’s birthday. It was a very bad day. It rained so awful hard. An awful day.



Tuesday, April 3, 1973

A miserable day. I went down to Betty’s. She cleaned her cellar. In p.m. Bill and I went to town and over to see Jean. She isn’t at all good. She didn’t know anyone very well. Stan was there. We saw Gordon and Sal down town. Gordon is made power of attorneys of Jean’s estate. He is to look after her bills etc.

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