As the Thanksgiving holiday approached in 2020, Kaylee Williams’s 70-year-old neighbor Chuck told her he would be spending the day alone because of the COVID-19 pandemic. So he asked if Kaylee would make him a pie.
“I thought to myself, ‘Gosh, I wonder how many Chucks are out there — people who just can’t celebrate with their families,’” Kaylee said. “So I called up a bunch of friends, and I said, ‘What if we baked pies and we gave them to residents of Des Moines, and we created a little sign up page on the internet?’”
Pie requests rolled in quickly, and soon Kaylee found herself overwhelmed by the orders — she was drowning in dessert.
“I’m sitting in my living room, and we’ve got pies everywhere,” she said. “They were on the record player, on my dining room table, the kitchen was completely filled with pies that people had dropped off to be donated. And I’m sitting on my laptop computer, and I think I was in tears.”…