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, January 25, 2025

March 20 - 22, 1992 Billie's Birthday

 

Friday, March 20, 1992

 

A quite nice day, cold. I done the ironing. Zak cleaned up the house. Carmen and Bro called. Bro sick and couldn’t go to school. I didn’t do too much today.

 

 

 

Saturday, March 21, 1992

 

Ground all white when we got up this morning. By noon fields all bare again. I done up regular work. David came for coffee. Susan came in p.m. and also a surprise visit from Nola Raye and husband Glenn. Very glad to see them. Zak worked on his lot some today. Betty and Charlene walked up by with two dogs. Partly cloudy today. Still cold.

 

 

 

Sunday, March 22, 1992

 

Well this is Billie’s 61st birthday. No one here today. By late p.m. Carmen, Betty, Brogan came and Kim. They prepared a very nice steak supper, salad and all. I made a cake in morning. In evening Dorothea, David, Joy came and Zac went down and got Betty Smith. He had a money tree and got a lot of money, cards, candy etc. We had ice cream cake. Betty, Walt, Dorothea, David, Betty Smith, Kim, Tom, Zak, Joy, Billie, Carmen, Brogan and I.

 

 

 

 




 

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