Laid to Rest

WYFF Anchor/Reporter Mike McCormick was laid to rest over the weekend. 

McCormick was killed on Memorial Day, along with Photojournalist Aaron Smeltze when a tree fell on their news car while they were out covering storms. 

The funeral was held at Central United Methodist Church in downtown Spartanburg.

“Mike was a storyteller, it is what drove him to the University of Miami and to a career in journalism,” minister Bailey Nelson said. “His selflessness and curiosity to know and understand what other people are feeling and the lives that they lived allowed him to give voices to so many who would have been left voiceless.”

Bailey said McCormick was talented, quick-witted and beautiful friend who will be missed. He had a passion for cooking, animals, hosting Halloween parties and watching reruns of The Golden Girls on television, she said. McCormick would laugh with his whole body and extend hospitality to strangers, Bailey said.

“Mike was so much the spirit of who we are at WYFF 4,” WYFF Anchor Nigel Robertson said. “You couldn’t be around him and not love everything about him, so we are sad, but we get so much joy in remembering who he was and the impact he had on all of us.”

McCormick started at WYFF in 2007 as a reporter and became a weekend anchor in 2014. He was 36.

H/T GoUpstate.com

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