News Anchor Mark Spain Dies 3 Weeks After Being Diagnosed With Pancreatic Cancer – E! Online

Family, friends and viewers are saying goodbye to Virginia news anchor Mark Spain.

Just three weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the ABC-affiliated WSET anchor died Dec. 18, according to his widow, Lynita Spain. He was 64.

“It is with a heavy heart that I share the passing of my loving husband Mark,” she wrote in a post on her late husband’s Facebook page Dec. 19. “Our family along with the city of Lynchburg lost a man of hope, someone who loves his city and stood for equality, treating others with respect and kindness. He was a husband, father, brother, friend and a positive light in the community.”

Lynita, who described the journalist as her “first true love,” added that he “stayed positive throughout” his short battle with the disease.

“We have comfort in knowing he is no longer suffering,” she continued. “It was not easy watching him fight for his life and battle this disease, but he was not alone, and neither were we.”