Honoring a statesman

By News Staff on Monday, July 7, 2025
Family remembers Josien Ardoin’s service
  • Josien Ardoin is pictured in his United States Army uniform. He was wounded in battle while fighting in World War I on July 18, 1918, and later served as president of the Evangeline Parish Police Jury and the Rotary Club of Ville Platte. (Photo courtesy of Avia Susan Boudreaux)
    Josien Ardoin is pictured in his United States Army uniform. He was wounded in battle while fighting in World War I on July 18, 1918, and later served as president of the Evangeline Parish Police Jury and the Rotary Club of Ville Platte. (Photo courtesy of Avia Susan Boudreaux)
    Staff Report On July 14, 1918, American troops, under the command of General John J. Pershing, marched in Paris for the annual Bastille Day Parade. Among those marching was a corporal who was a native of Church Point and who had since moved to raise his family in Chataignier, Josien Ardoin. After his time in the United States Army was complete, Ardoin returned home to Evangeline Parish and beg...

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