[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 71 (Wednesday, May 2, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H4412]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         HONORING C.W. MATTHEWS

  (Mr. GINGREY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the memory of C.W. 
Matthews, a long-term businessman in Cobb County, Georgia. Mr. Matthews 
passed away on Sunday at the age of 84, and with his passing, our 
Nation lost of one of its most inspired industrialists
  In the 1940s, a 23-year-old Matthews established the C.W. Matthews 
Contracting Company, which today is the largest highway contractor in 
the southeastern United States. C.W. was a natural businessman, making 
friends with ease, growing his company the old-fashioned way, through 
hard work.
  Over the past 60 years, the company has employed thousands of 
workers, built many of the roads that help Cobb County thrive, and even 
worked on the expansion at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport. In 
fact, Mr. Matthews, with only an eighth-grade education, created one of 
the most successful family-run businesses in the Nation.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to tell Mr. Matthews' wife, Myrtle, of 66 years, 
his two sons, two grandsons, and seven great-grandchildren, the entire 
Cobb County community shares in your loss. We will always remember C.W. 
as a man of passion, drive and ingenuity.
  I ask all my colleagues to join me in honoring the legacy of C.W. 
Matthews.

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