Patricia Ann Morgan

Patricia Ann (Egan) Morgan, 85, died August 7, 2025, in Newfane, Vermont. She was born on April 15, 1940, in Brooklyn, NY, the daughter of Patrick Egan and Alice (Brady) Egan.

She was the wife of Howard Morgan, to whom she was married on January 13, 1968, in Queens, New York, and from whom she had been separated since July 1995. She graduated from The Mary Louis Academy in 1957, and attended Hunter College first immediately after high school, and again in the 1990s, but did not graduate.

After college, she worked for a short time for AT&T as a customer service representative. In 1960 she was hired by TWA as a flight attendant, a career which continued until TWA closed its doors in 2001, and for a few years afterwards with TWA’s corporate successor, American Airlines. She loved flying with TWA through the glamorous 1960s, when overseas travel was reserved for celebrities and the wealthy, as well as in later years when it was broadly available to all. Of the many places she traveled to over the years, she loved Italy best, and spent as much time there as she could, although her long layovers in Cairo, assiduously improving her tennis with the aid of the hotel tennis pros, were also a source of great enjoyment to her.

In December 1968, her eldest daughter Claire was born. Under TWA’s policies at the time, she was fired as soon as her pregnancy became apparent. She was a member of the plaintiff class of flight attendants that sued to establish that termination for pregnancy was a violation of the Civil Rights Act, a litigation that was finally resolved after an earlier settlement by Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, 455 U.S. 385 (1982), and she returned to her job after the birth of her second daughter, Elizabeth, in 1971.

Throughout her life she was passionately committed to the labor movement, and to left-wing politics more generally, marching in protest against the Iraq War in 2003, and strongly supporting leftist politicians from Bill de Blasio to Bernie Sanders. She was particularly involved in supporting the United Farm Workers in their boycott of California table grapes in the 1980s.

She was predeceased by her older brother, Laurence Egan, and is survived by her estranged husband, Howard Morgan (86), her younger brother Dennis Egan (74), her two daughters, Claire Morgan (56) and Elizabeth Morgan (54), and her grandchildren, Eleanor Prickett Morgan (26), and Henry Prickett Morgan (24).

No formal services will be held at this time. Those who wish may make a memorial contribution to the North Fork Animal Welfare League in lieu of flowers.