The Disappearance Of Joan Gay Croft  – Smok' Okie

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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
• MISSG: THE KIDNAPPG OF JOAN GAY CROFT
• 2557DFOK - JOAN GAY CROFT
• THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JOAN GAY CROFT

JOAN GAY CROFT

Retouched photo of Joan Gay. Real Name: Joan Gay Croft.

She spoke wh a d lisp and pronounced her name “Jogay. 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. Joan Gay grew up one of Woodward’s most proment fai. 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.

” Ruth says Joan Gay was very bashful.

MISSG: THE KIDNAPPG OF JOAN GAY CROFT

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

Joan Gay asked to see her parents.

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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.

Ruth asked Nurse Irw about Joan Gay. 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.

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JOAN GAY CROFT

Nellie and her hband cid to go to Woodward, planng to adopt Joan Gay. 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. One of the unclaimed bodi was a young, blon-haired girl who bore a strikg remblance to Joan Gay.

Stecher asked Ruth to brg some of Joan Gay’s cloth to the mortuary. When he looked at the cloth, he told her that they were too big and that the body was not Joan Gay’s. After lookg at , she was certa was not Joan Gay’s.

Wh Joan Gay still unacunted for, her fay lnched an all-out search.

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. Ol revered om his juri and ntued to search for Joan Gay.