The church bell reportedly was so heavy it probably took more than one person to carry it away..
His wife, Donna, he and a friend drove into the parking lot of the Congregational Holiness Church in Piedmont, not far from the parsonage where the Clarks live. As Clark glanced at the front of the building, something was vaguely different. That’s when he realized the black, cast-iron bell the children in the congregation loved to ring was no longer in its place.
With the discovery of the theft, Clark called Piedmont police, who wrote a report for the stolen property.“We reach out to them if we hear something and tell them to reach out to us. Everyone would be grateful if the bell would show back up. If anyone has information about who took that property, please call the station and ask for me.”Someone in the vicinity of the building said they had seen the bell during the previous evening.
Brandon Cook, a fourth-generation member of the church, worked Thursday morning to install a flagpole next to the brick structure where the bell had sat for the past several years. Then, in 2019, the church members asked Clark to come out of retirement, which he did just as the pandemic spread throughout the area.
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