OLV bells ring out for thousands of lives lost to COVID âIt has been a bad month in Erie County" OLV bells ring out for thousands of lives lost to COVID and last updated 2020-12-30 17:54:07-05 LACKAWANNA, NY (WKBW) â âFor whom the bell tolls" means to ring church bells when a person dies. Eileen Buckley Our Lady of Victory Basilica in Lackawanna. For a full minute Wednesday bells rang out during the noon hour at Our Lady of Victory Basilica in Lackawanna to remember and honor the more than 335,000 lives lost to COVID in the United States this year.