[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 4924]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       HONORING CHARLES M. WALLIN

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                         HON. GEORGE RADANOVICH

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 17, 2002

  Mr. RADANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Charles M. Wallin 
for receiving the 2002 Hall of Fame Award from the Sanger District 
Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Wallin has been playing a huge role in the 
Sanger community nearly his entire life.
  Charles Wallin attended elementary school and high school in Sanger. 
He graduated from Fresno State, and the College of Mortuary Science in 
Los Angeles. Upon his return to Sanger, Charles went into business with 
his father at Wallin & Son Funeral Home which he eventually purchased 
from his father and renamed Wallin's Sanger Funeral Home.
  Mr. Wallin is a very active member of the Sanger community. He was a 
member of the board of directors for the Sanger Chamber of Commerce and 
was the District Secretary for Rotary District 5230. Charles Wallin has 
been a member of the Rotary Club of Sanger since 1964, and is currently 
a member of the Sanger Masonic Lodge No. 316. Charles is an avid 
supporter of the Tom Flores Youth Foundation, and also promotes 
numerous programs at Sanger High School, Mr. Wallin is a member of the 
California Funeral Director's Association. He has been married to 
Marilyn L. Wallin for 37 years, and the happy couple was blessed with 
three sons, Mark, Christopher, and Brian.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Mr. Charles M. Wallin for 
receiving the 2002 Hall of Fame Award from Sanger Chamber of Commerce. 
I invite my colleagues to join me in thanking Mr. Wallin for his 
community service and wishing him many more years of continued success.

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