Joan gay croft

They can be found in a section all by themselves with only each other for company. They were even called to Armstrong’s Funeral Home by the coroner to view the body of a young girl he felt could possibly be Joan but this too was unsuccessful.

     And that was where the story was left to history. She had arrived trying to find her mother when she stumbled across the girls.

     It would be Mary that was the first one to see the wound on Joan’s leg. The nurse told Ruth, Joan was thought to have been taken to a hospital in Oklahoma City. No, I don’t believe that somebody would not have stepped up to keep these girls from spending eternity with no names.
 

This article appears in Mar 28 – Apr 3, 2007.

His injuries would require surgery but he would recover and join the search after he was released from the hospital. Joan has strawberry blonde hair, fair complexion, chunky in build, and light blue eyes. Where you start and where you finish are up to fate.

     We may be the only ones left to care.

     Occasionally a story was written to remind Oklahomans that she was still missing.

Perhaps the one teacher that could have given us her name was also a victim of the tornado. Let me tell you what I think happened and let’s decide if you agree.

     To tell a complete story I feel I need to start from the beginning. Soon rumors began that she had been kidnapped. Geri told her aunt that “two men in khaki military type uniforms with some type of company logo” had came in during the night and carried Joan away.

According to interviews he would give to local newspapers in the days after, he and Cleta gathered the girls and ran out the front door.

     Yet, it appears, every effort was put into finding their identities. I guess people were desperate to believe anything if it meant Joan was still alive and could return one day. We’re used to picking up the phone and just making a call but back then you had to have the assistance of the operator to make a call and with them on strike few people had any warning until it was too late.

     The home of Olin and Cleta Croft was in the direct line of the twister.

They died in the storm and were buried in unmarked graves in the Elmwood Cemetery there in Woodward.

     When she returned Geraldine was there but Joan was gone. Their ages were estimated to be eighteen months, five years and twelve years.