SPRINGFIELD - The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, at Springfield Memorial Gardens & Funeral Home for Charles Alvin Edwards of Springfield, who died Aug. 14 of lung cancer. He was 71.

He was born May 21, 1935, in Oilton, Okla., to Willard and Velma Shafter Edwards. He married Elsbeth Klappevich on Dec. 31, 1955, in Corvallis.

Edwards worked as a millwright.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Gidian of Springfield and Timothy of Brownsville; two daughters, Julie Cramer of Oakridge and Suzanne Kelly of Rome, Ga.; a brother, Loyd of Madras; four sisters, Lenora Nelson of Bakersfield, Calif., Letha Edwards of Arroyo Grande, Calif., Barbara Tatum of Grover City, Calif., and Jacqueline Meyer of Termo, Calif.; 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. A reception will follow the Saturday service.