Beau Flores, 40, of Shreveport, Louisiana joined our family and friends in Heaven on June 2, 2020. Beau was born February 8, 1980 on Barksdale AFB to Patti Hall Flores and Eddie Joseph Flores, Sr.  He is preceded in death by his Nannaw, Mary Mitzi W. Hall; grandparents Lula Mae and Edward Flores; Uncle Mike Flores; and cousin Curt Coffelt; life-long friend Traci Mayes.

Beau is survived by his wife Dana Bell Flores; children Zoey Love Flores and Jacob True Flores; mother Patti Flores; father Eddie Flores; sister Kim Flores  Surratt and her husband Tommy; niece Karmyn Gracie Procella; sister Nicole Hall; brother-in-law "G" Mike; life-long friends Mike O'Brien "OB" and Brandi Wilson "Brandilee"; and many aunts, uncles and cousins.

Beau married his high school sweetheart, Dana Bell and during their 23 years together, they had two beautiful children, Zoey Love and Jacob True.  Beau was proud to be a family man and he worked hard to support his family as a machinist for 20 years.  For the past five years, his work home has been at B&J Machine Works.  Beau was proud to see his daughter graduate from high school to become the grown up, independent woman she is today, and he valued being active in supporting his son's interests, such as playing baseball.  For his family was his everything and he excelled at being both husband and father.

As a child, it became clear that Beau was a leader of adventures.  He was always the instigator of fun.  The engineer of brilliant, sometimes slightly outrageous ways to have said fun; such as cow patty fights, silo climbing, attempted mustang taming and bull riding his way to a broken arm.  Those are some of his crazier ideas, and yet he could usually always rope others into participating because of the excitement with which he presented his ideas.  No one showed more ingenuity than Beau.  His friends loved coming to bonfires where they would "hide" from their parents and have fun with one stunt or another.  He was a wired for sound, willing to try anything, loud joke-telling, prank-pulling, larger-than-life person.  You might could say that he had more bravery than it might be safe to have because he would try almost anything.  He became known as Beau "Gigadee" because he was a "Gigadee", set and ready to go.

He didn't lose his sense of adventure like many do in adulthood either.  He enjoyed building all kinds of contraptions for children and adults alike to play on.  Most of us didn't get hurt, unlike Dana...  Beau liked playing darts.  As you threw, he would be in the background hollering at you to "Get it up there!"  Beau's favorite leisurely activity was fishing.  If someone mentioned fishing, he jumped at it with anyone or everyone.  Anywhere, anytime and anyday, he was up for it and it was guaranteed to be a good time with him around!  Thank you for being you, Beau "Gigadee", you earned your nickname a thousand times over. Don't worry about us in Heaven, for you have given us a mountain of memories to cherish that will lend us strength until we meet again. We love and miss you.