OBIT: Rev. Howard Dewey GRESS, 1989, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  REV. GRESS, FORMER AREA PASTOR, DIES
  
    Rev. Howard Dewey Gress, a retired Presbyterian minister who served as
  pastor of Glade Reformed Church from 1928 to 1935, died Friday in
  Nashville, Tenn.  He was 90.
    Rev. Gress, a native of Meyersdale and a 1918 graduate of Meyersdale High
  School, was graduated from George Washington University in 1923 and from the
  denomination's seminary in 1926.  He did post-graduate work at Princeton,
  Vanderbilt and Temple Universities.
    He was ordained to the ministry July 21, 1926.  During his ministry, he
  held pastorates in Pitcairn and Roxbury, Pa., and Crescent City and
  Orlando, Fla.
    Rev. Gress held a number of church offices on the state and national
  levels.  After his retirement in February of 1969, he served as an interim
  and supply pastor.
    He was a brother of Attorney Henry G. Gress of Somerset.
  
  Somerset Daily American, December 27, 1989.
  
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