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!

Friday, November 12, 2021

July 1 -3, 1980 Pa died

 

Tuesday, July 1, 1980 Pa died at (blank) PM last night

 

Well it has been cloudy and light rain. It rained last night and it done a lot of good for the gardens. I put a rinse on my hair. Done up my regular work. Went down to Betty’s, we worked some more in the apartment. Kim up here after supper. Also Zak and then later on Carmen came up for a little while. She feels some better than last night.  Kim up here for the night. David’s mother came today for a visit.

 

Walter Ambrose Horton Junior died tonight at (blank) PM at the Northern Cumberland Memorial Hospital at Bridgton Maine. Betty was with him. Betty and Walt had been down to the hospital in early evening to see him, he was very low them. They came home and decided to go back at about midnight. Betty went down to check earlier and she sent right back for Walt. He went but Pa had breathed his last before Walt got there.

 

 

 

Wednesday, July 2, 1980

 

It rained good by heavy showers all forenoon. Kim up quite early, she stayed up here last night. Late this PM I went down to get my hair set. Came home, got supper. Then we all went down to view Pa’s body at the funeral parlor. He looked very nice and not more than 60 years old.

 

 

 

Thursday, July 3, 1980 Betty, Walt and Pa, a very nice day, on the hot side, Brockle head bred $305.30 $139.40

 

The white head heifer was bred today. Zak here all day and staying tonight. Betty and Walt left early this morning and went to Rhode Island with Pa’s body in the station wagon. He was buried today at noon. Sandra, Vi and Ray all of them thought he looked very nice. He was buried beside his wife. He came here to live with Betty and Walt in (blank). They fixed him a nice apartment.


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