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, March 28, 2021

February 18 - 21, 1978 Surprise Party for Betty

 

Saturday, February 18, 1978

 

Partly good day. I have been very busy all day getting ready for tomorrow. I cooked, washed windows, ironed, swept, dusted, changed the beds, washed floors etc. Billie went to Norway, saw a Lloyd. This has been the Winter Carnival weekend. All went well.

 

Surprise party at Susan's

Betty and Susan

Walt and Dawn


Billie Deming

 

 

 

 

Sunday, February 19, 1978

 

A nice sunny day all day, on the cold side and some wind. I got up early, got the dinner to going. At about 12:30 the company came. We had roast pork, onions, shell beans, turnip, hot rolls, mashed potatoes, applesauce, cheese, lemon sponge pie, white cake. It was for Betty’s birthday. Fern, Dawn, Betty’s family and later in PM Dorothea and Dave came.

 

 

 

Monday, February 20, 1978

 

A beautiful day. It was sunny and nice all day. I did a big wash and got picked up and straightened up from yesterday. The clothes all dried very good. I got them in at four. Betty moved the stove and got it set up in the little house. Billie and I went down to Fern’s. She wanted to talk to us about some things. Kim came up and stayed all night.

 

 

 

Tuesday, February 21, 1978

 

A very nice day. Betty, Carmen and Zak over to Norway to the eye doctors. Zak’s eyes are bad. Billie back to work today. Zak came up to stay all night. Bill and Ilan went fishing. Billie don’t work tomorrow.

 

 

 

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