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, April 20, 2022

February 12 - 14, 1982

 

Friday, February 12, 1982 a very nice spring like day, Billie home

 

Walt and Zak left about 8 AM for Massachusetts. Will visit Walt’s Aunt Vi and his sister. They are going to get a room and stay in Boston all night then in the morning they will tour Boston and visited at the places of interest. Joy picked Billie up at the Mercy Hospital. They got home about 3 PM. It was so hard to find a parking place. He was very sore, he had been through a lot. They had scraped the inside of the bladder, examined the prostate gland, removed a large bunch or tumor from his urine organ, grafted skin. It will take time to get over all of that, got to go back in a week to have removed stitches etc. We went to see Bill tonight. He don’t feel very good.

 

 

 

Saturday, February 13, 1982

 

Well another miserable day after such a nice day yesterday. I done up all regular work. Washed windows, made bread, washed floors etc. Made preparations for tomorrow. Dorothea and David called. Betty all alone all day. Kim worked, Walt and Zak not home you. Billie doing pretty good. David came down and helped with the chores.

 

 

 

Sunday, February 14, 1982 Valentines day, Betty’s birthday dinner

 

I got up early this morning to get my work done and the dinner started. It has been a real spring like day. Fern, Betty, Walt, Kim, Zak, Billie and I here for dinner. Later on in the PM Dorothea, David, Susan called and Tom and Charlene. We had cake, ice cream after roast pork sandwiches. Betty got gifts of money and a pretty candlelight from Dorothea and David. Carmen called and talked, a nice gift. Walt got Betty roses for Valentine’s Day. I got chocolates and we also got beautiful cards. Walt, Betty and Kim are going to take the stereo up to Carmen tomorrow.

 

 

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