Clinton Peck Hayne

Clinton Peck Hayne died peacefully in his sleep on June 12, 2024, just shy of his 90th birthday. Peck will be remembered as a loving husband and father, enthusiastic entrepreneur, epic storyteller, and eternal optimist. A lifelong Who Dat, he’d proclaim every summer the Saints are going to the Superbowl this year, I know it. Well, at least that Leo got that right once.

Peck attended Audubon Elementary, Country Day, The Hill School and Yale. At Yale he was in the Navy ROTC, a golden gloves boxer, and a diver on its #1 ranked swim team. Following in the footsteps of his father, Peck served our Nation as a Navy pilot for 4 years in Oahu and Okinawa and another 4 as a Navy reserve pilot in Belle Chasse. While stationed in Hawaii, he met the love of his life, Pam Manhart, whom he married in short order. After the Navy, he returned to New Orleans, where he was a stockbroker for 44 years. He first joined E.F. Hutton and then was a founding member of Viguerie Hayne & Chaffe which later merged with Howard Weil and then with Legg Mason.

Anyone who knew Peck knew he had a kind heart and always wanted to help. He lived by his family motto Tenax Propositi—firmness of purpose, stubbornness some might say. Whether heli-skiing in Canada, flyfishing for tarpon in the Florida Keys, bird hunting in Louisiana and Mississippi, boxing in his 50s, prison ministry at Angola, or anything else, Peck was all-in.

Some say Peck was the first person to regularly jog down St. Charles Avenue—in the 1960s. Before he became an avid redfish guide for 20 years in the Louisiana bayous, he could be found practicing his double-haul fly-casting on the Audubon Park golf course. His boat, the Bank Robber, was where he connected with nature and the people he fished with—and sometimes the mud flats in south Plaquemines Parish. But he was also a fisher of men: through Kairos, he was a devoted minister, listener, and friend to many a lifer at Angola.

Peck is survived by his wife, Pam Manhart Hayne, son and daughter-in-law C. Peck Hayne Jr. and Vivienne Monachino Hayne, son and daughter-in-law Thomas Ashton Hayne (Tommy) and Carolyn Chojnowski Hayne, and daughter Heidi Doyle Hayne. Peck has four grandchildren, Heidi Hayne, Anna Hayne, Lily Schrimsher, and Jonathan (Jack) Schrimsher. He was preceded in death by his parents, Frank Brevard Hayne Jr. and Helen Peck Hayne, and his younger brother, Frank Brevard Hayne III.

His family is so grateful to at Peristyle Residences and Anvoi Hospice Care, especially Diana, Felicia and Janice, for the care and attention they gave Peck in his last year.

If you wish to honor his life with a gift, please consider the Kairos Prison Ministry, Trinity Episcopal Church or the charity of your choice.

A memorial service will be held at 11am on Thursday, June 27, 2024, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Avenue in New Orleans; a visitation will begin at 10am in the sanctuary.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.LeitzEaganFuneralHome.com.