Lucy Pollockâs âBaking With Lucyâ livestreamed Facebook episodes attracted 50,000 viewers, another 20,000 watched reruns of the videos and sometimes each segment has as many as 400 comments. Then, every day, bags of mail have been delivered to the home where she lived with her daughter and son-in-law, Mary Ellen and Phil Raneri in Lawson Heights.
When she passed away on Nov. 22 from complications due to COVID-19, hundreds of thousands of people watched her livestreamed funeral.
Thatâs how many people loved Lucy, who was 98.
Lucy, Mary Ellen Raneri said, would be proud that she and Phil kept up the show with Lucyâs favorite recipes. She would have also been pleased that a new gas stove replaced the electric one, and she would have laughed along with viewers when Phil had to file down the granite counter tops to make it fit.