Ed Whitfield: “all of us join in wishing our condolences to Charlie's wife Gloria and his entire family. Those of us who were elected…”

“all of us join in wishing our condolences to Charlie's wife Gloria and his entire family. Those of us who were elected in 1994 and had the opportunity to know Charlie, to work with Charlie, and for me personally I had the opportunity to sit next to him on the Energy and Commerce Committee for about 8 years, Charlie was many things. He was a soldier in Vietnam, he was a businessman, he was a dentist, he was a great United States Congressman. He also was a Sunday school teacher at Trinity on the Hill Methodist Church in Augusta, Georgia. And I know that that church meant a lot to him because he is asking for donations to that church as a memorial. Recently I attended a church service in a Methodist church in Kentucky, and the title of the sermon was ``You Can't Make a Success of Life Without Making a Gift of It.'' And when I think of Charlie Norwood, that is really what I think about: He made a gift of his life. We will miss him. He has made a tremendous impact on all of us. We wish his family the very best.”