Charles Owor 

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On Thursday 10th August 2000, Charles was killed in a road accident in Eldoret, Kenya. Charles had many friends in Uganda and around the world. One of his friends Reverant Benjamin Twinamaani of Dallas Texas, USA wrote this eulogy. He started by writing:
"Dear Aggrey, Jim, Zac. I am sending this to you to pass on to Joyce Owor at the appropriate time. If possible, do some adjustments to the content for reading at the memorial service(s) on behalf of us who cannot be there. We are praying and lamenting, Ben Twin"
Dear Joyce, Lagum and Lara
This letter comes to you with shock and sadness from the news of Charles' death and going home to be with the Lord. We share with you in your grief and sadness, and we wish to express our heartfelt condolences to you.
We wish to pay our humble tribute to Charles, who was a proven brother indeed. He truly lived and expressed the fruit of the Holy Sprit, love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; He loved the Lord, and lived for Him, and in Him and through Him. And he preached the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ, in both word, and song, and example. Charles was truly a saint in our midst.
He had solidarity of Christian character that proved and modelled for us how the character of Christ can practically and visibly dwell in mortal flesh. He demonstrated authentic Christianity for all of us, and made us proud to be associated with him. He always gave us both due encouragement and timely rebuke in genuine love and good will.
He was to all of us a true and trusted friend, a solid mentor, a wise counsellor, a model as a truly Christian and truly African man, yet he remained our very peer in the truest sense of the word, always "Odongto" (remaining death only) He consistently provided us with the most "positive peer pressure" as we together faced the challenges of living righteously as Christian professionals, and starting a family, in the Ugandan economy, with inflation and poverty, corruption, wars, disease, temptation, and sin.
One of the biggest and elusive achievements a man can have is the genuine and voluntary respect of his male peers, and Charles had and enjoyed that respect from all of us since his twenties.
His passion for the rule of law in Uganda and his faith and vision for its realisation convicted all of us to participate in the constitutional process. He turned us from sceptics and cowards to be believers in the Christian's active participation in the political affairs of Uganda; he woke us up to the demanding, and challenging, and even frustrating task of nation building. We discussed his draft constitution at length, and from that experience, we are now wiser and informed as to what is legally going on in the nation, (Uganda) and what more needs to be done. He was a veritable Nehemiah to our generation.
His vision and pioneering work with the Uganda Christian Lawyers Association is a lasting testimony to what "salting the earth" means for Uganda's Christian professionals, as is his pioneering work in getting us involved in the global economy through networking.
We lament his passing, the way David lamented the death of Jonathan, with a deeply heartfelt and sad lament. For Charles has left an unfillable gap in our Christian fellowship as a generation, and our nation is now much poorer for a nationalist and leader of true integrity. We know and are convinced that "a giant walked in the land," and in our midst, and his name was Charles Owor.
Yet our lament is also a holy lament, for we accept that God has chosen to take Charles home, as a beloved son of His own redeeming, a sheep of His own flock, and welcomed Charles into the glorious company of the saints in God's heavenly presence.
We continue to trust our selves to God's unfathomable wisdom and plans, which surpass our human understanding, as is also His mercy and peace. We have lost Charles to this earthly life, but we know we shall never lose him ever again, for he is now with the Lord and kept for us forever.
 
The Miros. (At home and abroad)
This article was from an email send to Aggrey Mugisha and Dr. James Magara on Saturday 12th August 2000 09:40:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Special Message for Joyce Owor From Benjamin Twinamaani: canontwin@yahoo.com.
This same letter also appeared in Relate magazine September October 2000 publication.