About a half-teaspoon of his ashes will be in a fireworks shell that will create a white burst in the sky for the finale of the show.
Kevin Moss says he can't think of a better to way to honor his friend.
There'll also be hundreds of T-shirts referring to the tribute as the "the last shot."
Smith, a school maintenance worker, was a trained pyrotechnician. His widow says they started the fireworks shows as a community service and sometimes paid for the shows themselves.