If you live in Quarryville, you knew Arthur Garzon.

You might not ever have spoken to him or even knew his name.

But you knew who he was.

"If you ask anybody around town if they knew the guy who rode his bike all over the place in church clothes and wore a red mask in winter, they'd say, 'Oh yeah. I've seen him,'" said Quarryville resident Ed DiPilla.

Garzon, 76, was killed riding that bike Monday morning on Route 222.

According to a couple of people who did know him, Garzon was a quiet, devoted Catholic, who rode his bike around southern Lancaster County, including to and from St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church two miles south of Quarryville every Sunday.

"He was here to celebrate Mass every week," said the Rev. Robert Yohe, Pastor of St. Catherine's.

"He was kind of quiet and kept to himself, but he was a very kind person."

Yohe didn't know much about Garzon before he died.

But he knew Garzon loved to ride his bike.

"That's how everybody knew him," Yohe said.

An avid bike rider and parishioner at St. Catherine's himself, DiPilla got to know Garzon sitting on a saddle.

"I rode with him a couple of times," DiPilla said. "He told me he had about 100,000 miles on his bike."

Garzon came to Quarryville from Delaware County some time in the late 1980s or early 1990s, DiPilla said.

He couldn't remember what Garzon did for a living, but he originally lived here with his mother, and was a bachelor.

"She died in the house (Garzon) lived in, and he told me all his siblings had died," DiPilla said.

For about 30 years, Garzon rode a Fuji bicycle, DiPilla said.

Garzon told DiPilla he had about 25,000 miles on that bike.

On a visit to Garzon's house after a bike ride, Garzon showed DiPilla a rare Phillips bicycle that was made in London in the 1950s.

"He told me he had about 35,000 miles on that bike," DiPilla said. "I asked him where he got it, and he told me he bought it new in 1952.

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"That's before I was born."

Garzon didn't own a car, DiPilla said. He rode his bike to get around, "and he did it to keep himself in good physical shape," DiPilla said.

Garzon rode his bike regardless of the weather.

"He'd be out there in 15 degrees, wearing his facemask with his helmet on top, an overcoat and winter gloves," DiPilla said.

"I don't know how he did it."

DiPilla laughed when he recalled how he would show up to ride with Garzon dressed in the latest biking gear, and riding his high-tech bike.

"There's Art dressed in long pants with a rubber band around his right leg to keep his pant leg out of the chain, riding an old Fuji," DiPIlla said.

DiPilla told Garzon the two of them should have been on a magazine cover.

"I'd be the young high-tech guy, and he'd be the old guy who didn't need any of that stuff," he said.

Route 222 is a busy road early in the morning during the week.

But DiPilla said it wouldn't have been unusual for Garzon to be riding there Monday.

Police said Garzon and an SUV both were traveling north in the 2400 block of Beaver Valley Pike around 6:30 a.m., when the driver of the SUV slowed, then tried to pass the bike.

Officials said Garzon apparently turned and collided with the SUV as it was passing.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities waited two days to announce Garzon's identity, as they tried to identify his next of kin.

They couldn't find any.

Yohe said nieces and nephews have since been located in the Philadelphia area.

That's where Garzon eventually will be laid to rest.

"Apparently, he said in his will he just wanted a simple service — just a graveside service," Yohe said.

"That fits who he was."