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, August 22, 2025

April 25 - 28, 1994

 

Monday, April 25, 1994

 

Cloudy all day. Some rain. Cameron here this morning. He was good. I called Esther today. She is coming in August until 31st. Carmen came and did the work also Billie’s nurse came for him. Carmen to Norway and got the more wedding preparations done. Walt and Zak’s suits. Her invitations etc. Carmen got some swiss steaks into the oven and Betty came and got it all done, a very good supper. Brogan and Zak here tonight. Brogan had a good day at school. I’m feeling much better since I got rid of that cold.

 

 

 

Tuesday, April 26, 1994

 

A very rainy day. Gloomy all day. I didn’t do much of anything now I tell you. The man came and fixed the stove and put in the new unit. I cleaned the oven. Richard Nixon returned to his home state of California today. Watched TV soaps in p.m. Betty came, got supper tonight. It was good.

 

 

 

Wednesday, April 27, 1994

 

At last a nice sunny day. It cleared off in the middle of forenoon after two days of rain rain rain. Carmen came this morning. She did some work then she had other things to do. She worked last night. She was exhausted. She went home and done some work. In p.m. she went to town, got the groceries. I’ll be so glad when she don’t have so much to do. If she only had to do this work it wouldn’t be bad for her. Betty Smith isn’t feeling very good yet. Today was a national holiday honoring Richard M Nixon. They had services for him in California where he was buried. A very nice service. All four remaining presidents there. Nice things said about his whole life.

 

 

 

Thursday, April 28, 1994

 

A most beautiful day, yesterday very mild. Today it is sunny but quite windy. Carmen came early, got the breakfast etc. home, got Brogan off to school. Then came back with Cameron, done rest of the work. Then she and Kim gone to order the catering service for the wedding. Then she got to go to Portland for the ADC service. She washed this morning. Nurse came for Billie.

 

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