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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1995 Condemned Man Gets A Last-Minute Stay OBITUARIES Armond Naeher; Was Owner Of Dairy Firm POTOSI, Mo. (AP) Condemned killer Roosevelt Pollard, scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. today, got a stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court as he lay in a cell outside the prison death chamber. Pollard's attorneys asked the Supreme Court for an emergency stay about an hour before the scheduled execution.

At 12:35 a.m., St. Louis time, the Supreme Court issued the stay. The move to the Supreme Court came after the judges of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis voted 5-4 to deny Pollard's request for a rehearing by that court.

Pollard's attorneys, who work for the Missouri Capital Punishment Resource Center in Kansas City, contend he is mentally incompetent to be executed because he suffers from schizophrenia and brain damage. Meanwhile, about a dozen members of the Eastern Missouri Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty held a candlelight vigil Tuesday night in front of the Circuit Court building in downtown St. Louis. "If the state thinks that killing people will teach people not to kill, that defies logic," said Margaret Phillips, spokeswoman for the group. "Killing will cause more grief." At the Potosi Correctional Center late Tuesday, prison officials continued preparations for the execution.

That included arranging for the special last meal requested by Pollard: grape juice, oranges, bananas and grapes, said prison spokesman George Lombardi. Pollard, 30, was convicted in the killing in December 1983 of Richard Alford, 43, a businessman from Blytheville, Ark. Alford was shot three times in the head when he stopped at a rest area on Interstate 55 near Steele, Mo. Pollard also was convicted in 1984 in Hillsboro, 111., in the shotgun mur Armond A. Naeher, a retired businessman in St.

Louis, died Tuesday (Jan. 10, 1995) of emphysema at his home in Crestwood. He was 64. Mr. Naeher was owner and president for 30 years of Bailey -Farm Dairy, one of the last local dairy companies that made home deliveries.

He sold the business and retired in 1991. He was a sponsor for more than 20 years of Ducks Unlimited, a conservation group. From the 1960s to the 1980s, he was active in the Mississippi Field Trials Club. A funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Kirkwood United Methodist Church, 201 West Adams Avenue, Kirkwood.

Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Hoffmeister Colonial Mortuary, 6464 Chippewa Street. Among the survivors are his wife, Mary E. Naeher; two daughters, Lynn Bowman of Snellville, and Peggy Kragh of Whitefish, two sons, Stuart Murray of Crest-wood and Louis Murray of Sunset Hills; two sisters, Marion Pilla and Bernice Mueller, both of St.

Louis; and three grandchildren. der of a Laotian boy during a highway robbery on 1-55 on Dec. 26, 1983. The court in Illinois sentenced Pol lard to 40 years as an accomplice in the killing. The boy, Aly Thao, 12, of Ottawa, 111., was shot to death after his family car was forced off the interstate.

Technically, Pollard remains sub ject to that sentence in Illinois. Tim O'Neil and Donald E. Frank lin of the Post-Dispatch staff contributed information for this report. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 4AF Hendricks; Owned Construction Firms A funeral service for Adolphus R.

"Al" Hendricks, a former owner of construction and home-improvement companies here, was held Monday at Temple Church of Christ, 4146 Washington Avenue. Burial was at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. Mr. Hendricks, 60, of St. Louis, died Jan.

3, 1995, at the John Cochran Veterans Administration Hospital after a heart attack. Mr. Hendricks was born and reared in St. Louis. He served in the Air Force in the Korean War and attended St.

Louis University. He was active in many facets of the construction industry. He founded Hendricks Construction Co. and Hendricks Home Improvement Co. in 1972, and ran the companies until they were dissolved in 1985.

In recent years, he worked for the St. Louis and Kinloch housing authorities. He was a past president of the Minority Contractors of Missouri and Kansas. Among survivors are his wife of 27 years, Shirley Hendricks; two daughters, Lisa Hendricks and Lori Hendricks, both of Chicago; three sisters, Edrie Augustus, Nelda Johnson and Lena Mastin, all of St. Louis; and a brother, William Hendricks of Chicago.

1 v. I I I ri Roland Stocke, 89; Financial Executive Board Weighs Renovation Of 3 Schools The St. Louis School Board has asked its architect to begin estimating the cost of renovating three elementary schools on the city's southern edge, school officials told members of a coalition that has fought to keep the schools open. At a meeting of the board Tuesday night, President Eddie Davis praised members of the group, Save Our Schools, for their support of Mera-mec, Froebel and Oak Hill schools. Davis then asked the South Side group to "expand your current parochial views" to support the district's efforts to keep Vashon Kigh School.

The future of Vashon is undecided and awaits a decision by U.S. District Judge George F. Gunn, who oversees the desegregation program. The futures of Meramec, Froebel and Oak Hill brightened considerably three weeks ago after Gunn ruled that the school board could renovate the three schools. In 1992, Gunn ordered the district to delay renovation until it could prove it needed the space.

James Saheda, a representative for Save Our Schools, told Davis that the group wants to be allies with the board. In other matters, the board discussed ways to keep more students from dropping out of a summer school program. A district evaluation generally gave the program, Summer Educational Experiences, good grades. But Board Member Robbyn Stewart noted that only half of the students enrolled in the program took tests. Board Member Renni Shuter said the district might even consider installing air conditioning or starting classes at 7 a.m.

instead'of 8:30 a.m. to keep more students. Other board members said the program might need to be made more interesting to keep students' attention. The six-week summer program is for students in grades one through eight. Roland Henry Stocke, a retired financial executive, died Sunday (Jan.

8, 1995) of infirmities at his home in Frontenac. He was 89. Mr. Stocke was a business development executive with First Bank Trust Co. in Creve Coeur from 1970 until he retired in 1975.

For 30 years before that, he was a corporate financial officer and assistant treasurer at Monsanto Co. An avid gardener, he was a past president of the St. Louis Rose Society. He was also a 35-year member of the Creve Coeur Rotary Club. Mr.

Stocke was born in Carmi, 111. He earned bachelor's degrees in science and in accounting from Washington University, where he was a star football player. The funeral service and burial will be private. He was the grandfather of Mary Phelan, an anchor and reporter at KMOV (Channel 4). In addition to his granddaughter, among the survivors are his wife of 62 years, Adelaide Moloney Stocke; two daughters, Ann S.

Phelan of Frontenac and Sheila Kimmell of Creve Coeur; a son, Roland N. Stocke of Sausalito, and four other grandchildren. Edwin Buchwach, 84; Was Businessman Edwin Buchwach, a businessman in AP St. Louis for many years, died Tuesday (Jan. io, 1995) at Jewish Hospital after a lengthy illness.

He was 84 and lived in Creve Coeur. Trial Questions Dennis J. Skillicorn, charged with first-degree murder in the death of Richard Drummond of Excelsior Springs, is taken to the Lafayette County Courthouse Tuesday in Lexington, for a hearing. His lawyer asked for a change of venue. Mr.

Buchwach opened Edwin's his business and retired. A funeral service will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Berger Memorial Chapel, 4715 McPherson Avenue. Burial will be in Chevra Kadisha Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2 p.m.

until the time of the service at Berger. Among the survivors are his wife of 48 years, Rose Buchwach; two sons, Dr. Kenneth Buchwach of Kansas City, and Steven Buchwach of Creve Coeur; a sister, Doris Kraus of St. Louis; and two grandchildren. Clothing Furniture Co.

in 1944. After serving in the Army during World War II, he returned to contin ue in his He helped some of his customers financially and donated his building at Grand Boulevard and Cozens Avenue to a church group. In 1993, he sold More obituaries 4B Where information is always on call. Tapping into PostLine is it's free! Dial PostLine at 923-2323 from any touch-tone telephone. Enter the four-digit category number of your choice from the list below.

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