Remembering Sharwan Smith

STANLIE SHARWAN SMITH, AGE 24, DIED THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1995 FROM INJURIES SUSTAINED IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT.

SHE WAS BORN NOVEMBER 25, 1970 IN PROVO, UTAH TO HYRUM WAYNE SMITH AND A. GAIL COOPER SMITH. SHARWAN GRADUATED FROM VIEWMONT HIGH SCHOOL IN DAVIS COUNTY, UTAH. SHE GRADUATED FROM SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY IN CEDAR CITY AND FILLED AN LDS MISSION TO ARGENTINA. SHE WAS VERY ACTIVE IN THE LDS CHURCH, SERVING IN MANY CALLINGS AND AS PRESIDENT OF THE LAMBDA DELTA SIGMA SORORITY IN CEDAR CITY. AN ATHLETE DURING HER SCHOOL YEARS, SHARWAN PLAYED BASKETBALL AND VOLLEYBALL. SHE WAS SELECTED AS THE 1990 DAYS OF 47 QUEEN IN SALT LAKE CITY. SHE WAS AN ACCOMPLISHED PIANIST AND AS A MEMBER OF THE SMITH FOUR SINGING GROUP, SHE RECENTLY PRODUCED HER FIRST ALBUM.SURVIVING FAMILY INCLUDE HER FIANCE, TROY CHURCH OF ST. GEORGE, UTAH; PARENTS, HYRUM AND GAIL SMITH OF ST. GEORGE, UTAH; BROTHERS AND SISTERS: GLENNA RUTH BURDICK, STACIE GAIL SHURTLIFF AND JOSEPH E. SMITH, ALL OF GUNLOCK, UTAH: REBECCA DEVON SMITH AND JACOB LANCE SMITH, BOTH OF ST. GEORGE, UTAH.

Sharwan Smith Student Center. The Sharwan Smith Student Center, completed in 1997, is named after a former SUU student and leader. Sharwan Smith was the Student Body Activities Vice-President and an exemplary graduate of SUU who was killed in an automobile accident in 1995. Her statue and story on a few of her accomplishments is found in the Rotunda of the Student Center.