Churchgoing \Church"go`ing\, a. 1. Habitually attending church.
2. Summoning to church.
The sound of the churchgoing bell. --Cowper.
Elizabeth Harris, the victim's mother, also testified emotionally that she was proud of her churchgoing son and that his death had devastated the victim's young son.
The 38-year-old Mr. Koerner is a churchgoing family man, a well-dressed sophisticate who can't abide Italian opera sung in English, a man who charms clients over dinner at the University Club in St. Louis.
"He's a nice guy," said James Crawford, 47, a Compton firefighter and neighbor of Ross. "He's a churchgoing family man I would speak with him across his driveway, on weekends mostly.
A teen-ager was charged Friday in the ax slayings of his parents, a brother and sister as friends puzzled over the change in the studious, churchgoing boy who gave himself a punk haircut the day of the killings.