[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 215 (Tuesday, December 14, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1369]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            HONORING THE RETIREMENT OF DR. ELOIS LEWIS EDGE

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                      HON. SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR.

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, December 14, 2021

  Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor Dr. Elois 
Lewis Edge of Albany, Georgia, who will be retiring after a 
distinguished, 43-year career as a nurse, midwife, and instructor 
serving the families and communities of Southwest Georgia.
  Dr. Edge has been a Certified Nurse Midwife at Albany Area Primary 
Health since 2009. Before that, she worked at Phoebe Putney Memorial 
Hospital for 30 years. In these positions, Dr. Edge earned the 
gratitude of thousands of expectant mothers for her skillful 
assistance, compassionate care, and warm personality.
  Dr. Edge also attained distinction in academia as well. She earned 
her Associate Arts in Nursing at Darton State University in Albany, 
which was followed by a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Georgia 
Southwestern University in Americus, Georgia; a Certificate of 
Midwifery from the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in 
Hyden, Kentucky; a Master of Science in Nursing from Case Western 
Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio; and a Doctorate in Nursing Practice from 
Frontier Nursing University in Hyden, Kentucky. While Dr. Edge was 
receiving her degrees, she was teaching future generations of medical 
professionals at Georgia Southwestern University and Frontier Nursing 
University.
  Shirley Chisholm often said that: ``Service is the rent that we pay 
for the space we occupy on this earth.'' Dr. Edge paid her rent and she 
paid it well. The world is a much brighter place due to the thousands 
of children Dr. Edge has helped usher into the world, either directly 
as a midwife, or by virtue of the instruction she provided to the 
scores of midwives and nurses who learned their trade from her.
  Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues here in the United States House of 
Representatives to join my wife, Vivian, and me, along with the over 
730,000 residents of the Second Congressional District of Georgia in 
honoring Dr. Elois Lewis Edge on her outstanding career and upon the 
occasion of her retirement. We wish her well as she begins a new 
chapter in her life.

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