Millye's Birthday Uncle Jim, Ann here. Folks go up to get car We kids go to Koepke's See dress goods Talk about our trouble mostly Home...

Doris & Carl leave. Sorta lonesome. Carl kisses me goodbye. Ha. Take Pictures. Dad (Gus) & Carl (Bellar)

Doris Wedding. Doris & Carl came home. Married 6 years. Up till 12. Bud takes Bernadine out. First time to see Carl since they came....

Bud, Doris, Ma, & I go visiting. See Ann, Mrs. King (Spain) Mymes (?) Pat & Lizzie Rueden. Home at 10. Spend 26 cents. Lynea's Note:...

Alice & Henry go to S. Falls. I keep baby.

Celebration in Canton. With Applegate & Don Schelly. To bed at 15 to 4. Alice & Henry have good time. Set on porch. Mosquitos like me....

Clean Kitchen. Baby fussy. Doris leaving the 18th Lynea's Note: Annie must be staying with her sister Alice and Brother-in-law Henry....

Ma washes & we iron. Get ready for tomorrow.

Henry & Alice come home. Stay with baby while they go to town in P.M. Bernard has good time. Plan on fishing. Lynea's Note: Baby Dickie...

Clean up stairs. What work. Ma & kids put in little garden. Scrub up-stairs Write to Alta.

Go to school. Marguerite sick Roland slows in next field, teased like heck. Don't get to Burbank Senior play. Get moccasons but don't fit.

Pete Schultz birthday Go to school. Don't do much. Sissy gets ear-ache.

Stay home today. Junior & Elmer go after Bernie. She goes to dress rehearsal. Sissy tips ma off chair.

Go to church. Alice & Henry come home. See baby. Lynea's Note: April 5th 1942 was Easter Sunday. Baby Dickie was born March 10th, less...

Go to school. Alice has a baby boy we hear. Koepke's baby swallows chain. Lynea's Note: Two days before she mentioned Alice's baby. I...

Dickie Birthday Go to school. Baby boy born to Alice & Henry Wegener. 7 1/2 lbs. Lynea's Note: Anna Marie's older sister Alice married...

Doris R(eifers) Birthday Party on we kids. Have fun with Hank. Go get scarf. Norbert S. see's a man. Marie & Doris here. Fern with Lary...

This diary was started January 1st, 1942; 3 days after my Grandmother, Anna Marie Reifers, turned 14. In 1942 she lived on a farm in...

Jack & Sissy goes to Koepkes. Nobody comes to practice play.

Ma & Marguerite sleeps all day. Had a New Years party last night. Stormed. January 1st 1942: Farmer, Hanson, South Dakota Weather: -10...