FRANK GREDLER OBIT

	New London, Conn.  -- Services for Rev. Frank Seraf Gredler, minister emeritus of All Soul's Unitarian Church here and retired chaplain of the New  London YMCA, will be conducted Sunday at 3 p.m. in the church.
	Rev. Gredler died Monday at Uncas on the Thames, a Norwich cancer medical center.  He was 83.  
	Rev. Gredler was pastor of the New London church from 1932-1946.  In the past 22 years, he served as the church's minister emeritus and was a supply preacher at churches in Boston,other parts of New England and the South.
	In addition to his chaplain duties, he served the YMCA as chief receptionist.
	Before moving to New London, he was minister of the Unitarian church in East Bridgewater,Mass., from 1921-19254 and at the Ithaca,N.Y. Unitarian church from 1925-1932.
	The son of Austrian immigrants, he was born in Barre,Vt., in 1895.  His father was a stone cutter.
	Rev. Gredler attended Middlebury College, but left for a year to serve as an officer in the Navy during World War 1.  He returned to Middlebury to complete studies for a bachelor of arts degree in 1919.  He received a divinity degree from Meadville Theological School in 1921. 
	It was then that Rev. Gredler and Hazel Rogers, also a minister, were married.
	He leaves three sons, Charles, of Lexington, head of the Slavic section of Harvard's Widener Library; Gilbert, of Columbia, S.C., a professor of educational psychology at the University of South Carolina, and David Gredler or Norwell, a copy editor at The Boston Globe; a sister, Elizabeth Cantwell of Norwich, Conn.; 11 grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
	Burial service in Barre, Vt. will be private.

Taken from Boston Evening Globe Wenesday October 4,1978.




[taken from other newspaper--Interment will be in Hope Cemetery, Barre, Vt.]