DOVER ? In this northeast Kansas town, Norma Grubb is known for her pies. Now, the rest of the country knows about them, too.

Grubb, 88, was crowned Pie Queen on Sunday by the judges at ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Her coconut cream pie was chosen among four finalists in the Best Slice Challenge.

Residents flocked to Sommerset Hall Cafe in Dover, where Grubb makes her pies, as the television crews prepared for the big announcement. They dined on coffee and cinnamon rolls while waiting for the big event.

“I got here at 4 a.m., and the camera crew was waiting for me,” Grubb said.

Celebrating the moment with her were five of her eight children, as well as grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

Grubb, who normally bakes about 20 to 25 pies a week, baked 57 in the past week as interest grew.

Resident Janet Sage Bruce said she nominated Grubb and her coconut cream pie “because it’s the best pie in America. She’s been making pies forever.”

Jerid Brobst, who lives six houses away from the cafe, arrived at 5 a.m., and he, his wife, Misty, his parents, Paul and Vickie Brobst, and several others claimed the last open table.

“They were sitting on the windowsill,” Paul Brobst said of the size of the crowd.

Minutes after Grubb won the contest, a caller from New York contacted the cafe to order four coconut cream pies. But the cafe turned the caller down because of the limited number of pies baked each day and the difficulty in shipping them.

No shipper can guarantee the pie won’t be tipped over, said Judy Thomas, cafe co-owner.

Thomas said the restaurant was starting a maintenance endowment fund for the Dover Community Center in honor of Grubb. The cafe is paying $1 per pie for each of the 2,347 pies Grubb has baked since Thomas and her husband, Everett Thomas, have owned the business. Overall, Grubb has baked 8,963 pies for the Thomases and earlier cafe owners.