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, June 8, 2020

February 28 - March 3, 1975


Friday, February 28, 1975

A beautiful day. I got my hair set over to June’s. I washed, I washed my windows. I shampooed my hair. I did a big ironing this p.m. Afterschool Betty took Kimmy to the doctors. She has a strep throat and her tonsils are bad. She has got to have them out during the April vacation. Lloyd has been sick with a cold. Billie and I went down to see him this evening. Bill didn’t do anything today.



Saturday, March 1, 1975

At last first day of March. It has been snowing most of the day. I done regular work, done a dite of cooking. Betty, Walt and Zak called. David called after he got through working at Rudy’s. Billie made the calf stall over today. We got the food stamps today.

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Sunday, March 2, 1975

It started out to be clear but it got cloudy. I done regular work, took a bath. I did my washing. Cooked a chicken dinner. Keith called. Billie up to Chet’s. He had to do a few things for them.



Wednesday, March 3, 1975 $180.90, SS, 83.80

Cold. A quite nice day. Got up and got my work done early. Went down to Betty’s. We went to Portland to grocery shop etc. I got a lot of groceries on the food stamp plan. We called at Dorothea’s on our way home. Didn’t get home very early.


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