Person:Lawrence Gresser (1)

New York Times obituary, May 7, 1989:

Lawrence Gresser, 80, Retired Queens Judge Lawrence T. Gresser, a retired judge of the Queens Criminal Court, died of heart disease on Monday at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Atlantis, Fla. He was 80 years old and lived in retirement in Lake Worth, Fla., and on Shelter Island, L.I.

Judge Gresser, a native of Queens, was the third of four Lawrence Gressers in public life. He was the grandson of a Queens Borough President, the son of a city magistrate and the father of a former deputy borough president of Queens.

He was a graduate of St. John's College, where he was captain of the track team, and of St. John's Law School. After more than a decade in private law practice, he served for 22 years as an assistant district attorney in Queens before being appointed to the Criminal Court bench in 1969. He retired in 1972.

Judge Gresser is survived by his wife, Angela; two sons, Lawrence, of Douglaston, Queens, and William, of Scottsdale, Ariz.; a daughter, Angela, of Chicago; a brother, Charles, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; a sister, Sister Geraldine Gresser, of Wethersfield, Conn., and nine grandchldren.