Joan gay croft

     The next person to see Joan and Geraldine was their Aunt Ruth. Their house was completely destroyed by the time the tornado passed.

     I don’t know. Olen was rushed to Oklahoma City due to his injuries. Tornadoes can cause anything and anybody in its path to be picked up and taken somewhere else.

A nurse reported giving them a glass of water and a neighbor claims to have seen them there as well. She left them there with plans to retrieve them after she located her mother. One woman had the same blood type, scar on her left leg and a speech impediment as Joan, but her DNA did not match. She had arrived trying to find her mother when she stumbled across the girls.

They can be found in a section all by themselves with only each other for company. Kay Francis Holcomb is buried right beside them. But I have something to add to the story that may surprise you because… I think I know where she is.

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

Joan was taken to Oklahoma City just as the two men in Khaki claimed, then at some point she passed away and was buried under the wrong person's name. Maybe she lost her home and was preoccupied. It then passed south of the towns of Shattuck, Gage, Fargo and Tangier but nine more people were killed who lived on farms and ranches on the outskirts of those towns but it saved its worst for the town of Woodward.

     We may never truly know what happened to Joan Gay Croft but I do have a theory.

     If you would like to visit the graves of the three girls buried without their names you will find them at the Elmwood Cemetery in Woodward, Oklahoma.

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.

A cousin of Joan has provided a DNA sample, which has been entered into CODIS in hopes of finding a match. I feel I have found proof she was there and they just didn’t find her.

As others stayed behind to try to dig their parents out of the rubble, Mary delivered the girls to the front lawn of the hospital.