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20 OCTOBER 14-27, 2017 | DENVER CATHOLIC Classifieds 303-715-3212 | classifieds@archden.org In Brief TV MASS FOR THE HOMEBOUND COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION, CPT12 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 6:30 a.m. English, Fr. Ron Cattany 7:00 a.m. Spanish, to be announced SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 6:30 a.m. English, Fr. Sam Morehead 7:30 a.m. Spanish, to be announced SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29 6:30 a.m. English, to be announced 7:00 a.m. Spanish, to be announced SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5 6:30 a.m. English, Fr. Ron Cattany 7:00 a.m. Spanish, to be announced BY ROXANNE KING H e was a kind, generous, holy soul beloved by those who knew him as family, or friend, or as owner of John Erger Church Goods in north- west Denver, where for six decades he sold all things Catholic. John Erger died Sept. 10. He was 85. "He just gave to everyone," niece Julie Halliwell told the Denver Catholic about Erger's generosity to children and adult visi- tors to his store, and his gifts to parishes, church groups and charitable causes. "He was an angel to everyone," she said. "He had thousands of little gift cards from King Soopers and [other places] that he would give to the homeless. The poor would come in [to the store] all the time." Erger was also gen- erous in other ways, nephew Rob Leberer said, noting he donated hundreds of gallons of blood and plasma, and for years took Com- munion weekly to the homebound and sick. In 1957, Erger opened his own shop on West 29th Avenue and Tennyson Street in northwest Denver. In the mid-1980s, he moved the successful business to nearby 26th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard. Last year, frail and bent from a degener- ative back disease and su•ering from poor circulation, Erger sold the business to long- time friends and it was moved to 26th Avenue and Kipling Street in Lakewood. "Sixty years later, John Erger Church Goods endures," Leb- erer noted in his eulogy. Following his Sept. 16 funeral Mass, Leberer o•ered a toast nominat- ing Erger for canoniza- tion as "the patron saint of northwest Denver." Benevolent shop-owner John Erger dies at 85 John Erger, owner of John Erger Church Goods, passed away Sept. 10. FILE PHOTO BY JAMES BACA