Michael Wayne Cormier
July 11, 1948 – August 21, 2023

In less than 72 hours from when he walked into the ER to pronounce he was “done, and ready to meet God,” Mike took his last breath on a peaceful summer afternoon in a room with a view of the mountains he loved.

Mike was an artist and storyteller with a deep longing and ever-present love for God. Struggling with bouts of mental illness during much of his adult life, he overcame the kind of odds that many don’t survive.

Mike was compassionate for those near destitute, often opening his home and wallet to people on their last leg or needing a consistent helping hand.

He was extremely self-sufficient and had the ability to focus on the details of things for many hours at a time. Mike loved to read and study the Bible like few could, often alongside a Hebrew concordance or Greek lexicon, recording meticulous notes on nearly every page.

He also loved to play his acoustic guitar and would sing a range of songs that varied from the likes of gospel to Dan Folgelberg and The Moody Blues.

After his career in Colorado as a quality assurance inspector in the computer industry ended early due to a battle with alcoholism, Mike landed in Los Angeles to join his best friend and younger brother, Richard (Uncle Dicky) who shared a similar struggle.

Together, the brothers continued to heal and rekindled a passion they had for carving and sculpting as teenagers in the 1960s. They would live and work together for nearly the next two decades, creating figurines from deer antlers and amassing the most unique collection of its kind.

With the passing of his younger brother in 2007, and his beloved mother, Agnes, in 2010, Mike spent two more years in southern California before returning to live and die near the mountain range he loved in Colorado Springs.

Mike is survived by his son Jason and Jason’s wife Keely (Quinn) Cormier, and two grandchildren Isaiah Gregory and Quinn Michael Cormier of Boulder, CO. In lieu of a service, please consider honoring Mike with a donation to careandshare.org