In Memory

Dean Beauregard

Dean Beauregard

Kenneth Dean Beauregard

Kenneth Dean Beauregard, 49, of Amarillo died Friday, April 2, 2004.

Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors Ivy Chapel, 2800 Paramount Blvd., with Lyndon Latham and Greg Dowell officiating.

Mr. Beauregard was born in Amarillo on Aug. 18, 1954, to Ken and Wanda Beauregard. He graduated from Tascosa High School in 1972. He was a foreman and a co-owner of Amarillo Landscape and Sprinkler from 1971 until his retirement in 2002.

He was a loving family man and an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed fishing, hunting and camping. He frequently demonstrated for local schools and museums the history, traditions, tools and mode of living utilized by the trappers, explorers and traders known as Mountain Men. He was a founding member of the Plum Creek Brigade.

He also served as an officer at several levels for the Texas Panhandle Irrigation Association. He volunteered as a cook for Camping in the Canyons. He followed his children's activities as a sports dad and band booster. He was a member of Central Church of Christ.

He was preceded in death by his father in 2002.

Survivors include his wife, Janis; a daughter, Deana Beauregard of Amarillo; a son, B.J. Blackmon, serving with the Army, and wife, Tiffany, of Amarillo; a grandson, Hunter Blackmon of Amarillo; his mother, Wanda, of Amarillo; a brother, Max Beauregard of Houston; his father and mother-in-law, Jack and Mary Shields of Amarillo; a brother and sister-in-law, Jackie and Carolyn Shields of Tulare, Calif.; and many other loving family members and friends.

The family suggests memorials be to Conestoga Thanksgiving Dinners, in care of P.O. Box 401, Tulia, TX 79088 to continue the tradition of free Thanksgiving meals or to Central Church of Christ, 1401 S. Monroe St., Amarillo, TX 79101.

Amarillo Globe-News, April 5, 2004







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