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 15, 2024

July 1 - 3, 1991 Last Time The Smith Girls Were Together

 

Monday, July 1, 1991

 

A nice sunny day, very cold and windy. I didn’t do much, sat on the porch. Carmen called in forenoon. Esther went to town with her. Then she went up to Dorothea’s, they picked her things over that Es has up there. It evening Betty S, Betty H and I went up, we took the pictures. Michael Landon died this afternoon. Betty Smith has some nice pictures of the wedding.

 



 

 

Tuesday, July 2, 1991

 

Well it was nice and sunny today. Nice when we got up. Esther took a bath and done her hair. Packed her suitcase. David came down for coffee. Dave went home at about 11:30. Betty came up. Bro and Carmen.

 

 





 

Wednesday, July 3, 1991

 

Esther off at about 10 AM. Susan and Monica came and got her. Betty and Walt came up to say goodbye. We got a chicken ready for supper tonight. Carmen and Bro came up. In p.m. Betty H, Betty S and I went up to see the wedding gifts of the Kim’s. Over $2000 in money and many other beautiful gifts. Now they have to put them all away and get settled into daily life. We, Betty and I, went up to Dorothea’s to look over her antiques. Very late getting home to get supper. Walt, Bro and Betty here. Betty got the supper and cleaned up then she and Charlene went grocery shopping. Carmen worked till 11 PM.

 

 

 


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