WOLF POINT — Daniel Joseph “Danny” Smith, age 43, of Wolf Point, passed away unexpectedly on December 12, 2016, at Trinity Hospital in Wolf Point due to medical complications.
Danny was born in Williston, N.D., to Ronald V. and Gemma Crowley-Smith on November 16, 1973.
Danny was raised in and attended schools in both Poplar and Wolf Point, graduating from Wolf Point High School in 1992. Danny was active in sports throughout his school years, and earned All-Conference honors in Basketball.
Directly after graduation, Danny began his 25-year career in the Construction industry. He worked for Sansaver Construction for five years until he moved to Phoenix, Arizona. While there, he worked for Hu Hu Kam Memorial Hospital, Gila River Housing Authority, and the Ak-Chin Tribal Maintenance Department. After living and working in Arizona for 10 years, he returned to Wolf Point in January 2006. After working various construction jobs, he started work for Fort Peck Community College’s Construction crew, where he worked up until the day he passed away.
Danny loved sports and the outdoors, enjoying basketball, golf, hunting, fishing, football, and socializing with all his many friends. He had an endless sense of humor and loved to laugh and tell his famous jokes, enjoying pranks and family traditions. Everyone who came in contact with him came away uplifted by his generosity and caring demeanor. He had a knack of giving everyone a nickname, which stuck most of the time.
While living in Arizona Danny became a father to his two beautiful children, Alex and Jolie, he loved them endlessly and was as proud of them as a father could be. He enjoyed his nieces and nephews, teasing them every chance he got. Danny was very proud of his Indian (Assiniboine & Sioux) and Irish heritages. At the end of his life Danny was able to give a second chance at life to others by being an organ donor.
Danny is survived by his children Alexander (his mother Dacia Clark) of Phoenix Arizona; Jolie (her mother Jeanette Peters) of Ak-Chin, Arizona; mother, Gemma Crowley-Smith of Wolf Point; brother Craig (Leanne) Smith, of Wolf Point; sister Cheryl (Craig) Miller of Bremerton, Wash.; nephews and nieces, Courtney, Josh, Chris and Caleb Miller and Jared, Halie, Thea and Bryor Smith; great-nephews Aiden Holcomb, Bryson and Leighton Miller and one more to be born any day; and great-nieces Adalynn Marie Smith and Molly Holcomb; godparents, Donald Crowley and Patty Schneider of Manitowoc, Wis.; special friend Penny Hopkins of Poplar and numerous relatives in both Montana and Wisconsin.
He was preceded in death by his father, Ronald Smith; brother Douglas Smith; cousin Ryan Crowley; uncle, Wilfred H. Smith Jr.; Aunt Jeri Jensen; paternal grandparents Wilfed H. and Marie Smith; maternal grandparents, Joseph and Imelda Crowley; and was very proud to be the great-great grandson of American Horse, the famous Oglala chief.
Visitation will be held at 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. Sunday, December 18 at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Wolf Point. Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10 a.m. Monday, December 19 at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Wolf Point. Interment will follow at the Greenwood Cemetery in Wolf Point.
Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel of Wolf Point has been entrusted with the arrangements. Condolences can be sent to the family by using the form below.