Mallory McBrien’s widower Tim told the crowd at Mud City Crab House on Saturday that one of his wife’s fears before she died was that she would be forgotten.

To the contrary, 1,000-or-so friends and neighbors gathered in her honor, as they have done each February since 2016, to celebrate her memory and to raise money to support her family and other local families and causes. The young mother of two, Piper and Cedar, lost her battle with cancer in late 2016.