Individual Details

1900 Census. Chicago Ward 29, Cook Co, IL
John Morfa, b. Aug 1862, age 37, married 17 years, b. IL, father b. NY, mother b. Ireland, hog butcher
Kate, wife, b. Jun 1865, age 34. Has had 3 children, b. IL, parents b. Ireland
Jessie, dau, b. Nov 1889, age 10
Walter, son, b. Nov 1891, age 8
Raymond, son, b. Jan 1894, age 6.

1910 Census. Chicago Ward 31, Cook Co, IL
John Morfa, age 46, married one time at age 28, clerk
Catherine, wife, 43, 4 children - 3 are living
Jessie, dau, age 20. Walter, son age 18. Raymon, son, age 16.

5 Jun 1917
World War I Draft Registration
Raymond J. Morfa, age 23, living at 422 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago. Born in Chicago on 1 Jan 1894. Proprietor of Morfa Bros. Garage at 108 S. Michigan Ave. He is single.
Described as tall, medium build, blue eyes, brown hair.
Signed as Raymond J. Morfa.

US Army Transport service, Passenger Lists. 2 Sep 1918-14 Sep 1918
Outgoing - from Hoboken, NJ. Detachment of Pursuit Pilots.
Morfa, Raymond J. 2 Lt. Mrs. Myrtle Morfa, wife. 1720 South Ervay Street, Dallas, TX

By 1920 he was married to Myrtle Haden Bird. He divorced Myrtle and married Patty D. Green.

1930 Census. Chicago, Cook, IL, Hh 335
Raymond Morfa, 35, married at age 24, b. IL, parents b. IL, Salesman, Stocks & Bonds
Myrtle, wife, 51, married at 40, b. Texas, parents b. TX
John B. "Berg", stepson, age 21, b. TX

In the 1940 census, Myrtle stated she was living in Missouri, apparently already divorced from Raymond by 1935.

Married Patty D. Green, Cuyahoga, Ohio, 1 Jan 1937. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Marriage Records and Indexes, 1810-1973; Ancestry.com

6 Sep 1938, Patty and Raymond Morfa were on the passenger list of the "Queen of Bermuda", sailing from Hamilton, Bermuda, arriving in New York. His age given as 44, b. 1894 in Chicago; Patty was 46, b. 1892, Texarkana, TX. Residence was given as 25 East 67th St, New York City

1940 Census. Raymond Morfa was living in New York City, Manhattan. Hh 119, 136 E. 64th St.
Raymond was now age 45, and was in the same place as in 1935. He was a partner in Statistical Systems. Patty Morfa, wife, was age 40, b. New York, living in the same place as in 1935.

Found on a Ship's cruise passenger list on Ancestry.com. The S. S. Santa Paula sailed from New York on 3 May 1940, arriving back in New York on 16 May. Raymond Morfa, age 46, b. 1 Jan 1894 in Chicago and Patty, age 46, b. 14 Feb 1894, in Texarkana, TX. There home address was 136 E. 6th St., New York City.

World War II Draft Registration
Raymond J. Morfa, living at 136 East 64th St, NY C. age 48, born Chicago 1 Jan 1894.
Person who will always know his address is Mrs. Patty Morfa of the same address. He was Self-employed, 30 Broad St., NYC.
Described as 5'9 3/4", 177 lbs. Blue eyes, gray hair, light complexion.
22 Apr 1942

1947. Dallas, Texas, City Directory.
Raymond J. Morfa (Patty D) chairmn of bd, Missouri Pacific & Texas RR. home - 5222 Park Lane

29 Jul 1950. Patty Morfa was a passenger on the Queen Mary, sailing out of New York for the port of Cherbourg. She was age 59 and listed her address as 5222 Park Lane, Dallas, TX. She planned to stay abroad for 5 weeks.

Died in Grayson Co TX, 19 Oct 1952.

Texas Death Certificate 49033. Died at the Hospital in Denison - pneumonia, following 4-5 months after a stroke. Listed as Chairman, MKT Railroad. Mrs. Patty Morfa was the informant. the body was removed to a funeral home in Dallas.

Obituary, probably a Texas newspaper
RAYMOND J. MORFA, RAILROAD LEADER
"Chairman of Katy Dies at 58 - Was Director of Eleven Lines, Research Unit Head
Denison, Tex., Oct 19 AP
Raymond J. Morfa, chairman of the board of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) Railroad, died early today in the Katy employee's hospital here. His body was taken to Dallas for burial. He was 58 years old.
Mr. Morfa, who lived in Dallas, headed the Katy railroad since 1945 and was a director of eleven other lines. He was an unemployed Chicago salesman in 1932 when he began railroading and had one of the most outstanding careers in modern transportation.
Was Pilot in First World War
Mr. Morfa was born in Chicago. His formal education ended when he was 12 years old and he got a job as a messenger in a business office. He later became a stenographer, then a secretary and was due for further promotion when the first World War sent him into uniform as a pilot in the Air Force.
Upon his discharge in January, 1919, he took a salesman's job with Pathe Industries in Chicago. Mr. Morfa was unemployed in 1932 when the Van Sweringen brothers, who had gained control of several railroad properties before the 1929 crash, hired him as a salesman.
The brothers, hard hit by the depression, were trying to recoup their fortunes by obtaining an extension on some notes of one of their roads, the Nickel Plate. Mr. Morfa was one of the salesmen enlisted to ring doorbells to get assents for the extension. He was so successful that he was retained, doing similar work in 1935 and 1938 as the owners kept trying to get their railroad empire in order.
Mr. Morfa stayed on when the Van Sweringen properties passed into the hands of Robert R. Young and his associates in 1937. In 1942 Mr. Young made Mr. Morfa assistant chaiman of the board of the Chesapeake and Ohio. Three years later he became head of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad System.
Since assuming direction of the Katy, Mr. Morfa made the road a Southwestern railroad. His policy of holding board meetings in key cities served by the railroad proved popular among business leaders in the area, as well as his program of electing residents of the Southwest to memberships of the parent and subsidiary boards.
Mr. Morfa was a trustee of the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City and the Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Patty Morfa; his mother, Mrs. Catherine Morfa, and a brother, W. W. Morfa of Chicago, an official of the New York Central Railraod.

Patty Morfa is in the Social Security Death Index - her birth given as 14 Feb 1891 (I believe it was more likely 1894) and she died Aug 1979 in Denver.

Chicago Tribune, Chicago, IL, 20 Oct 1952, Monday, p.75
R. J. Morfa, 58, Katy Railroad Chairman, Dead
Denison Tex, Oct 19
Raymond J. Morfa, 58, chairman of the board of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) Railroad, died today in the Katy employees' hospital here. He was brought her by special train from a Dallas hospital five days ago. Morfa had been ill for several months and in a coma much of the time. His body was taken to Dallas for burial.
Morfa, who lived in Dallas, headed the Katy railroad since 1945. He was an unemployed Chicago salesman in 1932 when he began one of the most outstanding careers in modern railroading.
....Survivors include his widow, the former Mrs. Patty Newton of Texarkana; his mother, Mrs. Catherine Morfa of Chicago; a brother, W. W. Morfa of Chicago, an official of the New York Central railroad, and a stepson, Fred D. Newton of Denver.

From FindAGrave:
Chicago Tribune, Oct 21 1952
Funeral services for Raymond J. Morfa, 58, board chairman of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad, who died Sunday in Denison, Tex. will be held at 9 a.m. tomorrow in the chapel at 2121 W. 95th St. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery [Chicago]
Mr. Morfa leaves his widow, Patty, his mother, Mrs. Catherine Morfa of Chicago, a brother Walter W. Morfa, and a stepson, Fred D. Newton.

The Ottawa Journal, Monday, Oct 20, 1952, Ontario, Canada
Deaths
Denison, Texas. Raymond J. Morfa, 58, chairman of the board of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) Railroad.

Chicago Tribune, Mar 5, 1957
Catherine Elizabeth Cogan Morfa, age 92 years, beloved wife of the late John Morfa, loving mother of the late Jessie M. Wagner, Walter W. and Raymond J. Morfa; fond sister of the late Margaret Cash, Ann Hodges, and John Cogan; dear grandmother of Mrs. Jessie McGuire, John and Jerome Wagner, Mrs. Jane Ready and Mrs. June Zimmer; great-grandmother of 13; dear mother in law of Mrs. Christine Morfa.
Funeral Wednesday, 10 am from funeral home, Halsted at 76th street to St. Leo's church. Mass, 10:30 a.m. Burial, Mount Hope.
Parents were Thomas and Catherine Cogan.

Birth	1 Jan 1894	Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Marriage	22 Jul 1918	Lake County, Indiana - Myrtle Lea Haden
Divorce	29 Jan 1936	Centerville, Saint Joseph County, Michigan - Myrtle Lea Haden
Marriage	1 Jan 1937	Cuyahoga County, Ohio - Patty Dunbeck
Death	19 Oct 1952	Grayson County, Texas

Spouse

Myrtle Lea Haden (1877 - 1961)

Spouse

Patty Dunbeck (1894 - 1979)