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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JOAN GAY CROFT
Retouched photo of Joan Gay. Real Name: Joan Gay Croft. She spoke wh a d lisp and pronounced her name “Jogay.
MISSG: THE KIDNAPPG OF JOAN GAY CROFT
Details: Four-year-old Joan Gay Croft disappeared om Woodward, Oklahoma, on Wednday, April 9, 1947. 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. 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.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JOAN GAY CROFT
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. 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.