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Flournoy was a member of the First [[Presbyterian]] Church of Shreveport until he helped to organize and then became an elder in the newer Broadmoor Presbyterian Church in the Broadmoor neighborhood.<ref name=lahist/> He resided at 180 Preston Avenue in Broadmoor.<ref>William McCleary, "The Broadmoor Neighborhood: One of Shreveport's Older Communities", ''[[North Louisiana History]]'', Vol. XLII (Winter-Spring 2011), p. 5.</ref>  

Flournoy was a member of the First [[Presbyterian]] Church of Shreveport until he helped to organize and then became an elder in the newer Broadmoor Presbyterian Church in the Broadmoor neighborhood.<ref name=lahist/> He resided at 180 Preston Avenue in Broadmoor.<ref>William McCleary, "The Broadmoor Neighborhood: One of Shreveport's Older Communities", ''[[North Louisiana History]]'', Vol. XLII (Winter-Spring 2011), p. 5.</ref>  

Flournoy died at Schumpert Hospital in Shreveport of cardiovascular disease at the age of seventy-five.<ref name=lahist/><ref name=sjobit/><ref>''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' uses material for its sketch of Sheriff Flournoy from scrapbooks in the archives at [Louisiana State University in Shreveport, which opened the year after Flournoy's death.</ref> Flournoy and his wife are interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=stobit>Flournoy obituary, ''The Shreveport Times'', December 15, 1966, p. 9-A.</ref>

Flournoy died at Schumpert Hospital in Shreveport of cardiovascular disease at the age of seventy-five.<ref name=lahist/><ref name=sjobit/><ref>''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' uses material for its sketch of Sheriff Flournoy from scrapbooks in the archives at Louisiana State University in Shreveport, which opened the year after Flournoy's death.</ref> Flournoy and his wife are interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=stobit>Flournoy obituary, ''The Shreveport Times'', December 15, 1966, p. 9-A.</ref>

Flournoy had announced two months before his death that he would not seek reelection in 1967. He endorsed as his preferred successor his chief deputy, James McCormick Goslin, Jr. (1915-2001), a Democrat originally from Calhoun in  western Ouachita Parish who was reared in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] in north Louisiana.<ref name=stobit/> As chief deputy, Goslin served the remainder of Flournoy's term and was then elected sheriff outright in 1967 and again in 1971.

Flournoy had announced two months before his death that he would not seek reelection in 1967. He endorsed as his preferred successor his chief deputy, [[James M. Goslin]], a Democrat originally from Calhoun in  western Ouachita Parish who was reared in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] in north Louisiana.<ref name=stobit/> As chief deputy, Goslin served the remainder of Flournoy's term and was then elected sheriff outright in 1967 and again in 1971.

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