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...
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MISSG: THE KIDNAPPG OF JOAN GAY CROFT
One of those sent to the hospal was 4 year-old Joan Gay Croft. Last known photo of Joan Gay Croft, taken Easter of 1947.
Perhaps the strangt twist me 1999, when Robert Lee, a reporter who at the time worked for The Oklahoman, received an email om a woman claimg to be Joan Gay Croft.
In the 70 years sce Joan Gay Croft disappeared many theori have spng up as to her ultimate fate.
JOAN GAY CROFT
Regardls of her fate, people ntue to hold onto hope that one day Joan Gay Croft will fally e back home.
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LEEDid a 69-year-old Oklahoma Cy woman born Joan Gay Croft watch the TV reports on Saturday night's Woodward tornado and rell that cy's prev vastatg tornado of April 9, 1947? It's possible sce a 4-year-old Joan Gay Croft survived that 1947 twister that killed 185 Woodward rints and molished a vast majory of the twister had h the Croft home, killg Joan Gay's mother, Cleta, a telephone operator.
Joan Gay and her 8-year-old sister, Geri, were taken to the small Woodward Hospal where a pencil-size woon splter was removed om Joan Gay's leg. The two were assigned to ts the hospal's basement, which was beg ed as a sleepg night after the storm, as Geri reported later, two men drsed khaki work cloth me to the basement and rried Joan Gay away, never to be seen agaAs news edor of the Woodward County Journal, 1957-67, I wrote April 9 anniversary stori about Joan Gay's disappearance. Often, women would ntact Joan Gay's relativ, claimg to be Joan Gay.
But none turned out to be the real Joan Gay. A May 22, 1993, episo of TV's “Unsolved Mysteri” about Joan Gay generated lots of rponse … but still no Joan movg to Enid and then to Oklahoma Cy to jo The Oklahoman staff, I ocsnally would redo the April 12, 1999, I received this email:“Mr.