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!

Saturday, August 14, 2021

August 2 - 5, 1979 Walt in the Hospital

Thursday, August 2, 1979

 

It rained during the night. Cloudy and rainy when we got up this morning. It cleared, came off hot. I done a dite of wash.

 

 

 

Friday, August 3, 1979 $266.70 $117.20

 

A VERY HOT DAY. Well, I done up my work, got ready and went to town with Betty, Susan, children, Esther, Delores, Carmen, Kim, Norma, Regina and me. A car full. Anyway, we got a lot of shopping done.

 

 

 

Saturday, August 4, 1979 HOTTER

 

Well it has been such a very hot day. I made bread, rolls and baked beans. We all went down to Betty’s. Demings, Knicks, Thomases for supper. It turned out to be a surprise birthday for me. It is awful. I got a lot of very nice gifts, cards and money. Today Betty and Walt lost their little calf. He had lung fever and pneumonia. That is too bad, a big loss. Walt didn’t feel very good.

 















 

 

 

 

Sunday, August 5, 1979 WALT TO HOSPITAL

 

Early this morning Betty took Walt to the hospital, kidney stones. When she got home she came up here and had breakfast. Milan and Betty came early this morning. In PM we went down to Betty’s for a little birthday party for Jason. Kimmy put it on. It was nice, he is very cute. He enjoyed all his things he got. Walt came home from hospital tonight.

 







 
You don't look so good Norma


 

 

 

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