Friends and family of Clare McCormick will gather Saturday for a candlelight vigil to remember her life.

McCormick, a 19-year-old elementary education and child development sophomore from Alpena, was hit by a car on Chandler Road on the morning of Oct. 19. She died the next day.

Her funeral was held Oct. 26 in Detroit, but many of her friends at MSU were unable to attend, said her former Shaw Hall mentor, Maura Less.

“It’s a horrible thing that she died,” Less, an advertising junior, said. “But we want to celebrate that she was a vibrant college student. This is also for closure for the students here.”

The vigil will start at 7 p.m. Saturday on the riverside patio at the back of Shaw Hall.