Dan Crenshaw: “Mr. Speaker, I rise to remember a warrior, Tillie Kidd Fowler, wife, mother, friend and patriot, died 6 days ago and…”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise to remember a warrior, Tillie Kidd Fowler, wife, mother, friend and patriot, died 6 days ago and left behind her a legacy of service all will admire but few will match. She was as good a friend as she was a politician and was superb in both roles because no matter what hat she was wearing, it was still the same Tillie underneath. When word reached Washington last week that Tillie had left us, we all remembered the same things: we remembered her courage, her tenacity, and we remembered her leadership. There was no national security issue about which she was not an expert. There was not a branch of our military that did not seek her guidance and help in promoting the policies that keep our Nation safe. And there was not a serviceman or -woman in uniform who did not have a loyal and caring friend in the gentlewoman from Jacksonville. Her retirement from Congress, as anyone who knew Tillie could have guessed, did not in any way signal her retirement from public service.”