On April 9, 1947, a vastatg F5 tornado swept across the North Amerin plas, leavg stctn s wake. The small town of Woodward, Oklahoma, was leveled, and 185 liv were lost. Amid the chaos, 4-year-old Joan Gay Croft vanished whout a trace, sparkg a mystery that endur to this day. This article lv eper to the tragedy, explorg the var theori surroundg Joan Gay's disappearance and providg addnal sights to the circumstanc that led to her vanishg.
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- THE TWISTED DISAPPEARANCE OF JOAN GAY CROFTAN OKLAHOMA CHILD ABDUCTED PLA SIGHT FOLLOWG ONE OF THE ADLIT TORNADOS US HISTORYHEATHER MONROE·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·9 M READ·OCT 22, 2020--1SHAREJOAN GAY CROFT, EASTER OF 1947, COURTY OF NAMUSA PERFECT STORMON APRIL 9, 1947, AN F5 TORNADO SWEPT ACROSS THE NORTH AMERIN PLAS. THE TWISTER KILLED HUNDREDS, JURED HUNDREDS MORE, AND LEVELED THE SMALL TOWN OF WOODWARD, OKLAHOMA. 185 LIV WERE LOST THE STORM. IN THE ENSUG PANMONIUM, SURVIVG MEMBERS OF THE CROFT FAY WOULD BE LEFT TO WONR WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR YOUNGT MEMBER, 4-YEAR-OLD JOAN GAYE CROFT.THE TWISTER STRETCHED NEARLY TWO ACROSS AND TOUCHED DOWN AT 8:43 PM. WDSPEEDS SI THE TORNADO FLUCTUATED AN CREDIBLE 220 TO 440 PER HOUR. IT TOOK ONLY FIVE MUT TO STROY EVERYTHG S WAY, CLUDG THE CROFT FAY HOME.JOAN GAY CROFT WAS AT HOME WH HER PARENTS AND HER SISTER, GERI, WHEN THE TWISTER OBLERATED THEIR HOE. HER MOTHER, 26-YEAR-OLD CLETA MAE CROFT, TYPILLY WORKED AS A TELEPHONE OPERATOR THE EVENG. HOWEVER, THE NATNAL FERATN OF TELEPHONE WORKERS WAS ON THE THIRD DAY OF A STRIKE THAT EFFECTIVELY DISNNECTED TELEPHONE ACCS TO THE ENTIRE TOWN. FOR THIS REASON, CY OFFICIALS DIDN’T RECEIVE ADVANCE WARNG OF THE DISASTER ABOUT TO HAPPEN; THEY ULDN’T WARN RINTS TO TAKE SHELTER.THE RUBBLE
- JOAN GAY CROFT
- 2557DFOK - JOAN GAY CROFT
- NORMA GAY CROFT OBUARY
- GAY N CROFT FORT MILL, AGE 83
- 2770 GAYCROFT CT, AKRON, OH 44321
- THE UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF JOAN GAY CROFT: A DEEPER LOOK TO THE 1947 TORNADO TRAGEDY
- GAY CROFT
- THE TRAIL WENT COLD – EPISO 148 – JOAN GAY CROFT
- IS SEBASTIAN CROFT GAY? HIS FULL SUPPORT TO LGBTQ COMMUNY
- IS JOE LOCKE GAY? WHO IS HIS PARTNER/BOYIEND? ALL ABOUT HIS RELATNSHIP!
THE TWISTED DISAPPEARANCE OF JOAN GAY CROFTAN OKLAHOMA CHILD ABDUCTED PLA SIGHT FOLLOWG ONE OF THE ADLIT TORNADOS US HISTORYHEATHER MONROE·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·9 M READ·OCT 22, 2020--1SHAREJOAN GAY CROFT, EASTER OF 1947, COURTY OF NAMUSA PERFECT STORMON APRIL 9, 1947, AN F5 TORNADO SWEPT ACROSS THE NORTH AMERIN PLAS. THE TWISTER KILLED HUNDREDS, JURED HUNDREDS MORE, AND LEVELED THE SMALL TOWN OF WOODWARD, OKLAHOMA. 185 LIV WERE LOST THE STORM. IN THE ENSUG PANMONIUM, SURVIVG MEMBERS OF THE CROFT FAY WOULD BE LEFT TO WONR WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR YOUNGT MEMBER, 4-YEAR-OLD JOAN GAYE CROFT.THE TWISTER STRETCHED NEARLY TWO ACROSS AND TOUCHED DOWN AT 8:43 PM. WDSPEEDS SI THE TORNADO FLUCTUATED AN CREDIBLE 220 TO 440 PER HOUR. IT TOOK ONLY FIVE MUT TO STROY EVERYTHG S WAY, CLUDG THE CROFT FAY HOME.JOAN GAY CROFT WAS AT HOME WH HER PARENTS AND HER SISTER, GERI, WHEN THE TWISTER OBLERATED THEIR HOE. HER MOTHER, 26-YEAR-OLD CLETA MAE CROFT, TYPILLY WORKED AS A TELEPHONE OPERATOR THE EVENG. HOWEVER, THE NATNAL FERATN OF TELEPHONE WORKERS WAS ON THE THIRD DAY OF A STRIKE THAT EFFECTIVELY DISNNECTED TELEPHONE ACCS TO THE ENTIRE TOWN. FOR THIS REASON, CY OFFICIALS DIDN’T RECEIVE ADVANCE WARNG OF THE DISASTER ABOUT TO HAPPEN; THEY ULDN’T WARN RINTS TO TAKE SHELTER.THE RUBBLE
Real Name: Joan Gay Croft Nicknam: No known nicknam Lotn: Woodward, Oklahoma Date: April 9, 1947 Occupatn: None Date of Birth: October 28, 1942 Height: 3'5" Weight: 42 lbs. Maral Stat: Sgle Characteristics: Whe female wh shoulr-length, strawberry-blond hair and blue ey... * gay croft *
An Oklahoma child abducted pla sight followg one of the adlit tornados US historyJoan Gay Croft, Easter of 1947, Courty of NAMUSA Perfect StormOn April 9, 1947, an F5 tornado swept across the North Amerin plas. In the ensug panmonium, survivg members of the Croft fay would be left to wonr what happened to their youngt member, 4-year-old Joan Gaye twister stretched nearly two across and touched down at 8:43 PM. It took only five mut to stroy everythg s way, cludg the Croft fay Gay Croft was at home wh her parents and her sister, Geri, when the twister oblerated their hoe.
Schaad, Natnal Weather Service, Fair UseWhen the tornado waned, a neighbor bed through the bble that ed to be the Croft home and found Joan Gay and her sister. Insi as the twister tore through the hoe were Ol and Cleta Croft, wealthy sheep ranchers, and their two dghters Geri (12, Cleta’s child om a prev marriage) and Joan Gay (4). Joan Gay's Aunt Ruth spoke wh a nurse she new at the hospal and learned that Cleta had been killed and Ol serly jured the tornado.
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Geri told Ruth that some men drsed kaki work-type uniforms wh official lookg logos had arrived and taken Joan Gay away.
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Ruth ntacted a nurse who nfirmed the girl's story, and add that the men had specifilly asked for the Croft children and told the nurse that they were takg Joan Gay to a hospal Oklahoma Cy (a metropolan area 100+ away, which isn't necsarily unual procre OK followg a major disaster).
NORMA GAY CROFT OBUARY
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Over the years several women who survived childhood abductns have e forward believg they may be Joan Gay, but DNA tts have led all of them out.
GAY N CROFT FORT MILL, AGE 83
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They had a nversatn a seri of emails where the unknown person explaed that they were Joan Gay, were never really kidnapped, and had been alive and well livg OKC for some time. I thk the key pots to keep md are the thgs we know as facts: Joan Gay survived the tornado and was intified / spoken to by her sister and nt; the Croft parents were ad or severely pacated the night of the tornado; two men arrived that night to abduct the girl; they were wearg "uniforms" that have been said by eye wns to look like work uniforms (perhaps om search/rcue/bris removal) or "official" uniforms (I would terpret this to mean ernmental); the two men specifilly asked for the Croft children, and then only took the youngt (the one directly related by blood to both Ol and Cleta); sister Geri and a nurse at the hospal nfirmed the tails related to the two abductors.
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He was able to provi a fortable life for the fay: his twenty-six-year-old wife, Cleta, a telephone operator; her eight-year-old dghter om a prev marriage, Geralde “Jerry”; and, of urse, Joan Gay. When Raymond Goble Jr., Joan Gay’s uncle, stepped out on the ont porch that eveng, he saw a r g down the street wh all four wheels locked up.
THE UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF JOAN GAY CROFT: A DEEPER LOOK TO THE 1947 TORNADO TRAGEDY
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When asked about Joan Gay, Jerry said that at around midnight, two men whom she did not regnize had picked Joan Gay up and taken her away.
She said she stopped the two men, who told her they were takg Joan Gay to a hospal Oklahoma Cy, 120 away, where other fay members were wag. One nurse at a hospal told them Joan Gay had died, but another nurse at a different hospal said she was alive and had been moved somewhere else. Marvella says that until someone n prove to her otherwise, she will always believe that Joan Gay is out there somewhere.
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Another theory is that the kidnappers were “Good Samarans” who believed that both of Joan Gay’s parents had died (as newspaper reports ially stated Ol had died as well) and cid to raise her.
Yet another theory is that Joan Gay was kidnapped by a "child-stealg rg, " such as the on n by Geia Tann and Ethel Natn.
THE TRAIL WENT COLD – EPISO 148 – JOAN GAY CROFT
There is also the possibily that Joan Gay was the victim of sexual predators who me upon her that night and cid to abduct and possibly kill her.
Some sourc spell Ol’s name as “Olen” and Jerry’s name as “Geri” or “Jeanne” and state: Jerry was twelve years old; neighbors found her and Joan Gay around midnight; Ol was taken to the Woodward Hospal and then Baker Hospal; the splter was through Joan Gay’s right leg; doctors removed the splter and treated the wound; hospal workers thought they had load Joan Gay on a stretcher and rried her to a wag tomobile; and the kidnappers claimed to be fay members or iends of the fay. Rults: Unsolved - As a rult of the broadst, Ruth received more than 200 potential leads about Joan Gay’s possible whereabouts.
There were several siari between Jean and Joan Gay: Jean had a sr on her leg the same place where Joan Gay had the splter; they both had lisps; and their blood typ matched. In April 1999, Robert Lee, a newspaper wrer who had wrten several stori about Joan Gay, received an email om someone who claimed to know what “really” happened to her. In May 2016, Oklahoma state police took a sample of Marvella’s DNA and placed their state database, hopg to fd a match wh Joan Gay.
IS SEBASTIAN CROFT GAY? HIS FULL SUPPORT TO LGBTQ COMMUNY
Joan Gay, wh a splter through her leg, and her sister, were found to have ls life-threateng juri than others seekg re, and were hered to the hospal basement to wa as more cril juri were treated. Her sister, four years olr, reported that two men drsed khaki work cloth me to the basement and rried Joan Gay away. But as days passed followg the disaster and damage was asssed and rints acunted for, Joan Gay did not surface on hospal lists or wh any fay members.
It is wh great sadns that we announce the ath of Norma Gay Croft of Fort Mill, South Carola, born Afton, Tennsee, who passed away on March 2, 2023, leavg to mourn fay and iends.
IS JOE LOCKE GAY? WHO IS HIS PARTNER/BOYIEND? ALL ABOUT HIS RELATNSHIP!
Leave a sympathy msage to the fay on the memorial page of Norma Gay Croft to pay them a last was preceased by: her parents, Chter Norton and Nell Norton; her hband Jam "Jim" Croft; and her grandson Calv Youngblood. Sebastian Croft’s portrayal of a gay character “Heartstoppers” has left fans wonrg if the actor is gay offscreen as well.
However, his mment to reprentg queer stori has gone beyond the small screen, as Sebastian Croft regularly shows his support for gay Pri on his social media, which has led to qutns about his sexualy.