Tallan Smith

A celebration of life will be held at Colome City Cemetery, Colome, SD, at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 13, 2022. George Boom Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Tallan was born in 1994 in Rapid City, SD, to Roxie Harter, formerly of Colome, SD, and Brady Knight of Winner, SD. Roxie and Tallan moved to St. John, WA, in 1998. In 1999, Tallan gained an additional family when Roxie and Steve Smith were married. Tallan completed grades K-12 in St. John, WA. Tallan went to South Dakota State University the following year then lived in Washington, Colorado, and California before moving back to South Dakota. Within each community, Tallan made lifelong friends because of her fun, accepting, and loving personality. Tallan was working at Rock Bottom Grillhouse at the time of her passing.

Many simple pleasures in life brought joy to Tallan. She especially loved scary movies, caring for any and all animals, collecting tattoos, and spending time with her friends and family. Tallan enjoyed the art of makeup and hair; she especially loved Halloween. As a kid, she entertained her family with the many plays she wrote and directed using her younger sister and cousins as the cast. Tallan continued to love writing into adulthood. Tallan’s beautiful smile and belly laugh were infectious and she loved to talk your ear off from the time she was a toddler.

Tallan Smith of Yankton, SD, passed away on June 4, 2022, at the age of 27. Tallan was hospitalized on June 2 after being resuscitated from drowning. She spent the following days surrounded by family and friends. Tallan had chosen to be an organ donor and was able to provide others a better quality of life through her generosity.

The family will always remember her as the kind, funny, adorable, ridiculously photogenic, big-hearted, Sunny in Philly quoting, Buffy the Vampire watching, Harry Potter obsessed animal lover she was. She was uniquely fearless like a lion and scared of her own shadow at the same time. Most importantly, Tallan loved big…always.

Tallan is survived by her parents Steve and Roxie Smith and sister Maggie of St. John, WA; father Brady Knight of Vermillion, SD; brothers Griffin Knight of Omaha, NE, and Jacob Knight of Avon, SD; grandmothers Lisa Knight and Willa Kindt of Avon, SD; grandfather and grandmother Don and LaVonne Ring of Colome, SD; grandmother Kay Smith of St. John, WA; grandfather and grandmother Bud and Gina Knight of Wright, WY; boyfriend Steve Koster of Yankton, SD; as well as many additional family members and friends.