COLUMBIA - Penelope “Penny” Phillips Hayne, wife of Theodore Brevard Hayne IV, died Monday, November 24, 2008.
Born April 4, 1955 in Columbia, S.C., she was the daughter of the late Cyril Cloyd Phillips and Mary Mozingo. Mrs. Hayne was a National Merit Scholarship Finalist at W. J. Keenan High School. She was a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received a Master of Library & Information Science from the University of South Carolina and did additional graduate work at USC and Furman University. Next to her family, Penny’s greatest passion was her love for books and the vast world that they could unlock for children. As the Librarian Media Specialist at elementary schools throughout the Midlands and currently at Lake Murray Elementary School, she delighted her students with the wonder of literature. As a National Board Certified Media Specialist, she served not only her school but her profession as President of the S.C. Association of School Librarians, as a consultant and mentor to impaired schools, as advisor to former First Lady Rachel Hodges Books Selection Committee, for the “Reading with Rachel” Program, and on numerous other professional committees. Penny not only practiced her craft but taught it as well. She taught as an adjunct professor at The Citadel, Columbia College, the University of South Carolina, and at Lesley University
Penny was an active member of St. John’s Episcopal Church, where she served as a member of the Vestry, President of the Episcopal Church Women, a member of the Barr Center Building Committee, Secretary of the Rector’s Search Committee, and as a member of St. Monica’s/St. Bridgette’s Guild.
Surviving, in addition to her husband, are a daughter and son-in-law, Mary Douglass Hayne Smith and Orville Stanley Smith, IV; and a son, Theodore Brevard Hayne V.
The funeral will be held on Friday, November 28, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church. The Reverend J. Fletcher Montgomery will officiate. The family will receive friends prior to the service between 12:00 and 2:00 in Heyward Hall at the church. Memorials may be made to St. John’s Episcopal Church, 2827 Wheat Street, Columbia, S.C. 29205.