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• JOAN GAY CROFT
• 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
• 2557DFOK - JOAN GAY CROFT
• THE TRAIL WENT COLD – EPISO 148 – JOAN GAY CROFT
• THE UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF JOAN GAY CROFT: A DEEPER LOOK TO THE 1947 TORNADO TRAGEDY
• THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JOAN GAY CROFT

JOAN GAY CROFT

Details: Four-year-old Joan Gay Croft disappeared om Woodward, Oklahoma, on Wednday, April 9, 1947.

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

Years have passed sce the disaster, but credibly, one survivor – Joan Gay – remas unacunted for today.

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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.

Joan Gay’s great-nt, Ruth Bohn, scrib her as “perfect” and says she was the prettit ltle girl she had ever seen. 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.

Joan Gay’s and Ruth’s dghter, Marvella Parks, then fourteen, says was a horrible experience. After speakg to Bs Irw, a hospal nurse, Ruth learned that her niec, Joan Gay and Jerry, had ma through the tornado.

THE TRAIL WENT COLD – EPISO 148 – JOAN GAY CROFT

Joan Gay’s left leg had been pierced clear through wh a ten-ch-long, pencil-sized splter of wood. 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.

THE UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF JOAN GAY CROFT: A DEEPER LOOK TO THE 1947 TORNADO TRAGEDY

One of the unclaimed bodi was a young, blon-haired girl who bore a strikg remblance to Joan Gay. When he looked at the cloth, he told her that they were too big and that the body was not Joan Gay’s.

Marvella says they reported Joan Gay missg to all of the law enforcement agenci, cludg the FBI. ” Inially, the police spected that the girl was Joan Gay, as she matched Joan Gay’s physil scriptn.

Joan Gay’s uncle, Raymond Jr., thks there is a possibily that she is alive sce she was not badly hurt that night. Marvella says that until someone n prove to her otherwise, she will always believe that Joan Gay is out there somewhere.

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JOAN GAY CROFT

Spects: Joan Gay's abductors were scribed as two whe mal drsed khaki work cloth, possibly wh a pany logo on them. Marvella believ that Joan Gay was kidnapped by someone who had lost their child and wanted a “replacement” to raise. 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. 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.