Thursday night, with all those fireworks in the sky there will be also a bit of the cremated remains of Meredith Smith. According to The Associated Press, the organizers of a local fireworks show thought this was the best way to pay tribute to the man who ran the annual event for 40 years. Meredith Smith died at the age of 74, in February.

Kevin Moss, a friend of the family said this was indeed the best way to pay tribute.

“I can't think of a better way,” he said, according to The Associated Press.

Also hundreds of T-shirts will complete this final tribute called “The last shot.” Organizers will put about a half-teaspoon of Meredith Smith’s ashes in a fireworks shell, saying the release of the ashes would not harm the people gathered there. The fireworks will be shot Thursday night over the White River.

Meredith Smith was a school maintenance worker and he was also a trained pyrotechnician. His widow Charlotte Smith said he had been very interested in fireworks all his life and started the fireworks shows as a community service. Sometimes the couple paid for the fireworks.

“He liked this sort of thing even though it wasn’t his line of work,” said Charlotte Smith, according to the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.

John Althardt of the Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County said that the idea was great.

“I think that whatever a family can do to remember their loved one ... is great,” he said.