breezybidj
05-28-2008, 05:37 PM
Joan Gay Croft 4 years old missing since 1947
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..."After 61 years, Joan Croft still a mystery
If Joan Gay Croft is alive today, she is 65 years old. She probably has a family of her own, maybe children and grandchildren too. But, if she is alive, why has she never tried to contact her father and her sister? She probably has been known by a name other than Joan Gay since the night two men dressed in khaki clothing carried her screaming from her cot in the basement of the hospital at Woodward.
Joan Gay is one of the remaining mysteries that defied solution in the aftermath of the giant tornado that ripped through the town of Woodward 61 years ago this coming April 9.
The big twister, spawned in the early evening in the Texas Panhandle, dropped from the skies the other side of Arnett and quickly grew to a giant storm with a funnel two miles wide, and generated winds of 200 miles per hour.
It traveled on the ground for 221 miles at a speed of 46 miles per hour, smashing, without warning, everything in its path. It has been described as one of the 10 most destructive tornadoes of all time, killing 185 people and injuring 720.
Joan Gay’s mother was killed by the giant storm, and her father, H.O. Croft, was critically injured. He was transferred to an Oklahoma City hospital. Four-year-old Joan Gay and her sister, Jerry, were taken to the hospital, where they were treated for their injuries and bedded down for the night on cots in the basement of the hospital.
An aunt said she checked on the girls during the night, but when she returned to check on them the next morning Joan Gay was gone. Jerry, who was on a nearby cot, said two men dressed in khakis came to the hospital during the night and carried Joan Gay away, despite her protests, and screaming she did not want to leave her sister.
Apparently due to the turmoil of the night, no one paid any attention to the little girl’s protests
The incident received nationwide attention, but Joan Gay never was found. Her father and sister, Jerry, eventually moved away.
It would be interesting to know what happened to Joan Gay Croft, and where she is now, and what happened to the parents of the three unidentified girls."...
http://www.enidnews.com/opinion/local_story_085234551.html
http://doenetwork.org/cases/images/JGCroft.jpg
..."After 61 years, Joan Croft still a mystery
If Joan Gay Croft is alive today, she is 65 years old. She probably has a family of her own, maybe children and grandchildren too. But, if she is alive, why has she never tried to contact her father and her sister? She probably has been known by a name other than Joan Gay since the night two men dressed in khaki clothing carried her screaming from her cot in the basement of the hospital at Woodward.
Joan Gay is one of the remaining mysteries that defied solution in the aftermath of the giant tornado that ripped through the town of Woodward 61 years ago this coming April 9.
The big twister, spawned in the early evening in the Texas Panhandle, dropped from the skies the other side of Arnett and quickly grew to a giant storm with a funnel two miles wide, and generated winds of 200 miles per hour.
It traveled on the ground for 221 miles at a speed of 46 miles per hour, smashing, without warning, everything in its path. It has been described as one of the 10 most destructive tornadoes of all time, killing 185 people and injuring 720.
Joan Gay’s mother was killed by the giant storm, and her father, H.O. Croft, was critically injured. He was transferred to an Oklahoma City hospital. Four-year-old Joan Gay and her sister, Jerry, were taken to the hospital, where they were treated for their injuries and bedded down for the night on cots in the basement of the hospital.
An aunt said she checked on the girls during the night, but when she returned to check on them the next morning Joan Gay was gone. Jerry, who was on a nearby cot, said two men dressed in khakis came to the hospital during the night and carried Joan Gay away, despite her protests, and screaming she did not want to leave her sister.
Apparently due to the turmoil of the night, no one paid any attention to the little girl’s protests
The incident received nationwide attention, but Joan Gay never was found. Her father and sister, Jerry, eventually moved away.
It would be interesting to know what happened to Joan Gay Croft, and where she is now, and what happened to the parents of the three unidentified girls."...
http://www.enidnews.com/opinion/local_story_085234551.html