PICKENS COUNTY, S.C. —

The Soapstone Baptist Church held its final community fish fry after 22 years of the fundraiser.

Mabel Owens-Clarke made her late mother a promise that she would never let the doors of the historic black church close. That promise powered more than two decades of Clarke's famed community fish fry events. Latest Forecast

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"She has such a warm heart, a smile for everybody, and so she has become this force that has pulled people together," said Carlton Owen, the chairman of the Soapstone Preservation Endowment Board.

Dozens of people showed up for one final fish fry, with lines stretching outside the door.

"I've begun to believe it's the biblical story of the five loaves and the two fishes," Owen said. "There's

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