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, October 3, 2022

October 24 - 26, 1983 Poppa Operated on (A RED LETTER DAY!)

 

Monday, October 24, 1983 Kim took her drivers test

 

Rain this forenoon, it clouded at noon. It was raining this morning when we got up. It had rained hard all night, clear about noon. Today we get the awful news that the many Marines and other serviceman killed in Beirut yesterday. Because all the foot ballgames yesterday we didn’t get the full details until today. I done regular work, washed. Down town with Billie to the bank. He sent the check to the Social Security Administration. We called at David’s and at Betty’s to see the wood. Came home, got a piece of meat cooking. Then down to school with Betty to get Kim, she took her drivers test. Dorothea called on way home from work. She called to see Bill. Also Kim and Betty called to see him, he is to be operated on Wednesday. It cleared off, pretty sky tonight.

 

 

 

Tuesday, October 25, 1983

 

It was sunny all day, on the cold windy side. I have done some odds and end things. Billie busy outside. Carmen to Portland looking for a job. Got one at the orthopedic hospital. Betty been cleaning house today. I watched what shows that came on TV. AMC and OLTL. Others were taken off. Special news bulletins about the invasion in Grenada.

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 26, 1983 BILL OPERATED ON

 

Bill was OPERATED on today at 11:45. Bill went in to surgery for a growth on the large intestine which has been causing bleeding for several years. He has been in very poor health from the constant bleeding for the past several years. Hope now it will end and his health will be okay again. No malignancies anywhere. He is a very sick man today and tonight when we went to see him. Dorothea, Betty, Carmen, Kim and I were there before and during the operation. Kim came later. Today Carmen signed or applied for a job at Central Maine General Hospital in Lewiston. Billie cleaning up leaves in the yard today.

 

 

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